When I sat down with Jaeden Schaefer on the AI Chat podcast, we didn’t talk about the latest AI trends, instead, we talked about a deeper inflection: moving from pilots that keep “AI in a corner” to agentic, end-to-end flows that actually do the work, learn from it, and elevate what people are free to do next. Join host Jaeden Schafer as he welcomes Brian Solis, Head of Global Innovation at ServiceNow, to discuss the transformative power of AI in…
fastforward: Becoming an AI-first business requires a total organizational mindshift, an interview with Brian Solis
Ron Miller and Brian Solis explored what it means to be an AI-first company moving forward for fastforward, powered by boldstart… Just about every organization wants to be an AI-first company right now, but making every part of the business run on AI is easier said than done. If history’s any guide, past digital transformation efforts showed how a lack of organizational buy-in can sink even the best intentions. Brian Solis, head of global innovation at ServiceNow, and author of…
AI Will Expose Leaders Who Think Like Machines: The Future Belongs to Architects of Possibility
It’s been a dream to meet my idols, fellow peers, and also present at the Global Peter Drucker Forum. In 2024, Richard Straub and Julia Kirby made that dream a reality. And in 2024, we were just about two years into generative AI disruption that continues to disrupt enterprises and management thinking globally. I’m proud, and more than ready, to return in 2025. And in the one short year it’s been since I’ve last joined this incredible group of academics,…
Hunter S. Thompson’s Lesson for Executives Determined to Automate Their Workforce
I was thinking about the Accenture and Walmart news on AI and jobs. It reminded me of a letter Hunter S. Thompson wrote a friend reminding him the importance of purpose in our work. For power users, people are starting to “sound” like AI IRL and studies find that we’re losing our creativity and critical thinking the more we transfer brain power to gen AI. We must have purpose in AI transformation and how we work with AI and agents….
What Happens to Companies That Don’t Think Big Enough with AI?
I had the privilege of joining GoTo CMO Peter Mahoney on the Practically Tomorrow podcast. We talked about one of the most urgent, and misunderstood, topics of our time: how AI is reshaping the world of work. But this wasn’t just another conversation about automation and productivity. It was a much deeper exploration of how we need to rethink leadership, empathy, and innovation in the age of intelligent machines. “The most dangerous thing for any organization of any size is…
Designing the AI-Powered Workplace: What Workers Want, and Why It Matters
What do real workers want from AI? And how does that differ from what AI experts think? Let’s explore an insightful study recently published by Stanford University Social and Language Technologies Lab, “Future of Work with AI Agents.” Drawing on over 2,100 tasks across 104 occupations, the research compares how workers and AI experts think about automation (what AI should do on its own) and augmentation (where AI should collaborate with humans). Two groups were surveyed: 1,500 domain workers —…
AInsights: From Conversation to Creation, How ChatGPT 4o’s Canvas Transforms AI Collaboration
AInsights: Your executive-level insights making sense of the latest in generative AI… My new book, Mindshift: Transform Leadership, Drive Innovation, and Reshape the Future, just launched. I’m catching up on the biggest news coming out of the genAI world. Here’s more from OpenAI. The company recently announced its competitor to Google Search and in some respect, Perplexity, but so far, only in specific applications such as writing and coding. Canvas, provides a new window into collaborating with generative AI. On…
AInsights: OpenAI Introduces SearchGPT; Disrupts Google Again
AInsights: Your executive-level insights making sense of the latest in generative AI… With the launch of my new book, Mindshift: Transform Leadership, Drive Innovation, and Reshape the Future, I’m a little behind in covering some of the industry’s biggest genAI news! So, let’s jump right in… During the summer of 2024, OpenAI previewed a prototype of AI search, designed to offer fast and timely answers with “clear and relevant sources.” It was marketed as a new way to search. On…
AInsights: Nvidia’s Bold Move: Open-Source AI That Challenges GPT-4 and Democratizes Innovation
AInsights: Your executive-level insights making sense of the latest in generative AI… My new book, Mindshift: Transform Leadership, Drive Innovation, and Reshape the Future, just launched! Please join me on the journey to inspire a new genre of leadership and innovation! Nvidia just dropped a bombshell: NVLM 1.0, an open-source family of large multimodal AI models designed to compete head-to-head—and even outperform—OpenAI’s GPT-4. The highlight of this release is the NVLM-D-72B, a 72 billion parameter powerhouse that excels at both…
AInsights: Google’s NotebookLM Will Turn Any Executive into an Expert Researcher, Analyst, and Podcaster?
AInsights: Your executive-level insights making sense of the latest in generative AI… I’m not going to lie, when I first heard about the Google Notebook, officially named NotebookLM, it’s new AI pilot program, I thought that it would be limited to use by students and educators. I’ve since changed my mind. You could say I shifted my mindset. So what is NotebookLM? Is it just another tool like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Meta.ai, or Claude? Yes and no. NotebookLM is powered…
