Brian Solis, Head of Global Innovation at ServiceNow and one of the world’s leading digital futurists, recently joined Frank Cottle on the Future of Work show to explore how AI business transformation is redefining leadership, innovation, and the literal future of work. Artificial intelligence has quickly become one of the defining forces influencing business, but many organizations are still approaching it as a cost-cutting exercise rather than an opportunity to create new value. In this episode of the Future of Work® Podcast,…
The AI Trust Crisis wasn’t Inevitable, It was Led
AI has a trust problem because they understand the future they were asked to accept. For the last three-to-four years, AI was introduced less as a platform for human potential and more as a force of inevitability: jobs would disappear, entry-level opportunities would shrink, organizations would flatten, humans would be removed from the loop, and efficiency would become the new north star. That story did not write itself. It was shaped across boardrooms, classrooms, campaign stages, media headlines, investor calls,…
The Infinite Company: Building AI-Forward Organizations That Drive Exponential Growth with Brent Leary
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…
Forbes: The AI Conversation CEOs Are Not Having Out Loud
My latest article in Forbes explores what CEOs shared with me about AI business transformation during a full day workshop. AI is now firmly on CEO and board agendas. But many leadership teams are still asking the wrong questions. Recently, I led several workshops with roughly 100 CEOs and Chief Operators at a leadership conference in Arizona. The topic was AI. But the real conversation was leadership. These were honest conversations with operators who are under daily pressure to grow…
AI Darwinism Is Here, Now Leadership Must Evolve Next
AI Darwinism isn’t coming. It’s here. The evolution has already begun inside every organization where employees are experimenting faster than leadership is redesigning the systems around them. Microsoft’s 2026 Work Trend Index Annual Report makes the gap clear: AI is expanding human agency, but many organizations are not yet built to capture it. That’s the real challenge now. Leadership. The companies that win this next era will be the ones brave enough to reimagine work, empower curiosity, create psychological safety,…
Are We Inventing Tomorrow or Optimizing Yesterday? Guy Kawasaki and I unpack the tension at the center of AI, innovation, and leadership today
What a gift to spend time with an old friend (meaning we’ve been friends for a long time. He’s not old!) My latest conversation with Guy Kawasaki on his show, Remarkable People, reminded me that the future is never just a technology story. It is a human one. AI may change how we work, compete, and create, but it also exposes something deeper: whether we are using new tools to do yesterday more efficiently, or to imagine something genuinely better….
AI Darwinism: How Leaders Move from Automation to Reinvention
I joined The Meg & Amy Show and it felt less like an interview and more like a 1-hour masterclass on how to survive AI Darwinism. So, welcome to my masterclass: “AI Darwinism: How Leaders Move from Automation to Reinvention.” Free admission…enroll (watch) now! Course insights: You’ll learn what AI is really asking of leaders now: why AI maturity is getting harder, why too many organizations are using AI to optimize yesterday, and how the next generation of leaders can…
Brian Solis: De industrie geeft de toekomst van AI een verkeerd beeld
Credit Volgens Brian Solis wordt de toekomst van AI momenteel verkeerd geframed door headlines, algoritmes en invloedrijke stemmen binnen de industrie. Hij stelt dat we ons midden in een van de belangrijkste technological verschuivingen ooit bevinden, maar dat het publieke debat daarover intellectueel misleidend is geworden. Zoals hij zelf scherp verwoordt: “AI’s biggest challenge right now is not only technical. It is narrative.” Aan de jan kant domineren utopische beloftes, aan de andere kant doemscenario’s over massale werkloosheid en economische…
AI Doesn’t Take Jobs, It Creates Them: Jensen Huang’s Reality Check for the AI Alarmists and Doom-Sayers
Right now, AI narratives seem to be propagating an ROI of return on ignorance instead of a more productive ROI, “return on intelligence.” Enterprise leaders are currently navigating a critical transition toward AI-native operating models, yet AI adoption is stalling due to a fundamentally flawed narrative. Instead of focusing on strategic growth, the leadership conversation is paralyzed by speculative doomsday prophecies, a paralyzing fear of change, and a narrow focus on task automation for cost-cutting. This alarmist approach to the…
AI Is Changing More Than Work, It’s Rewiring Executive Decision-Making
The most important AI shift in business right now is not happening in the tech stack. It’s happening in the mindset of leadership. As executives lean more heavily on AI to guide decisions, a bigger question is coming into focus: is AI expanding judgment, or slowly replacing it? A March 2026 report highlighted by The Register, citing Confluent’s survey of 200 UK private-sector leaders, found that 62% of leaders use AI to make the majority of their decisions. Not some…