Brent Leary and I have been friends for many, many years. So whenever we have the chance to sit down for a conversation, it never feels like an “interview.” It feels like two longtime friends exploring what’s next, asking bigger questions, and challenging each other to think beyond the obvious. In this conversation, Brent and I explored ideas from “Infinite,” the new book Dave Wright and I wrote to help leaders rethink what enterprise organizations can become in an AI-forward…
In an Era of AI Darwinism, ROI Now Represents Return on Intelligence
You can’t cut your way to growth. You can’t automate your way to innovation. AI is forcing every organization to reveal what it really believes about people. Do leaders see AI as a way to shrink the company into a more efficient version of yesterday? Or do they see it as a way to expand the organization’s capacity to learn, imagine, decide, create, and grow? That is the fork in the road. I call this moment AI Darwinism: the new…
The Companies That Win With AI Won’t Just Cut Costs, They’ll Redesign Work
Based on interviews in May 2025 and subsequent, more detailed,, and repeated warnings in 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has predicted that artificial intelligence could wipe out roughly 50% of all entry-level white-collar jobs within the next one to five years. Amodei is sounding the alarm to get our attention. If he’s right, leaders don’t get the luxury of debating whether disruption is coming, they’ll have to manage how it lands. Amodei’s advice is to track track where AI is…
The End of Business as Usual: An Academic Book Review
This made my day… I just read a book review for “The End of Business as Usual,” my second solo book published in 2011. Not only is it a review of a 13-year-old book. It’s a review in the “Journal of Academy of Business and Emerging Markets (ABEM),” Canada! The book still has staying power! 💪 Thank you to Dr Michael B. Pasco, Professor at the Graduate School of Business, San Beda University, Philippines, for the thoughtful review. 🙏 The…
How to foster creativity and innovation by slowing down, reducing distractions, and single-tasking
My dear friend, Elisa Camahort and author of Roadmap for Revolutionaries, invited me to speak at the 2022 Rise conference organized by PBWC, the Professional BusinessWomen of California. When we explored all the trends converging that affect business professionals heading into the next year, we decided to focus on the core of what will influence everything we do next across the board…ourselves. In the days, months, and now years following our global CTRL-ALT-DEL moment, we have a choice in how…
The Escalating Dilemma of Executive Out-of-Touchness
A few years ago, my dear friend Stowe Boyd reached out to ask an important question in regards to future of work and business transformation. His goal was to cast the light directly on the (r)evolution lead by those who want change within the organization and also expose (and inspire) those who don’t. It’s a subject I’ve extensively studied over the years. In fact, I recently published “The Digital Change Agent’s Manifesto” to help those fighting for change learn the…
Top Futurist Keynote Speaker Brian Solis – The Future Happens to Us or Because of Us
We’re living in a very disruptive time. Digital disruption is all around us. It’s happening to us and because of us. So my message today is really about a choice. You have a choice as to what role you want to play in the future of the digital economy. Do you want to shape it? Or do you want to be affected by it? It’s a matter of “adapt or die.” All of the disruptive technology that’s happening in the…
X: The Experience When Business Meets Design – GetAbstract Summary
Digital customer experience has never been more important. The pandemic accelerated e-commerce, AI and automation, and digital transformation by 10 years. What most businesses still aren’t prepared for however, is how to think beyond digital tools and platforms to design intuitive digital experiences that inspire human engagement in every touch point across the CX journey. That’s what X: The Experience When Business Meets Design set out to do. It was designed to help “imagineers” image a unified customer journey that…
X Ranked Number 6 Best Mobile Marketing Books of All Time by Bookauthority
“X: The Experience When Business Meets Design“, made it to BookAuthority’s Best Mobile Marketing Books of All Time list, ranked at #6! BookAuthority collects and ranks the best books in the world, and it is a great honor to get this kind of recognition. The book is available for purchase on Amazon. p.s. Thank you Lee Odden!
The End of Traditional Marketing and the Beginning of What’s Next
Congratulations to Carlos Gil on the release of his new book, “The End of Marketing: Humanizing your brand in the age of social media.” Carlos is a long-time friend and I was genuinely appreciative when he asked me to write the foreword for his first book. All I asked was that I could share the foreword with you upon the book’s release. I hope it helps you! This is the end of what was and the beginning of what’s next…