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…
What it means when CEOs Step Down Because the Future of AI Arrived Faster Than the Role
When major CEOs begin framing succession around AI, it signals something larger than a changing of the guard. It suggests that the leadership model itself is being redefined in real time. This is not about becoming more efficient with new tools. It is about whether today’s leaders can redesign work, decision-making, and value creation for a world shaped by intelligence at scale. Recently, two iconic CEOs announced that they’re stepping aside and called for a new genre of leader in…
AI Business Reinvention Starts Where Legacy Thinking Ends
I recently sat down with Geoff Nielson on Digital Disruption, produced by Info-Tech Research Group, for a conversation that went far beyond the usual AI headlines. We talked about what AI is actually changing inside the enterprise, why so many organizations are mistaking activity for progress, and what leadership has to do with whether AI becomes a force for optimization or reinvention. Please do watch the conversation (video embedded below). It’s fun and rich with insights from the frontline of…
AI Is Reshaping Business, Yet Most Leaders Are Investing in the Optimization of Yesterday
If AI is eating the world, you could also say that it’s also exposing leadership. The companies that win next will not be the ones that automate the fastest, but the ones that learn to imagine bigger. That’s how we’ll start this story. Also, my keynote is below if you’d like to jump straight to the video. At Integrated Systems Europe in Barcelona, I talked about AI in a way that made some people nod, some people uncomfortable, and others…
AI Is Eating the World, Are We Ready to Dream Bigger?
At Integrated Systems Europe, I had the opportunity to continue the conversation after my keynote, “AI is Eating the World,” in a candid video interview with Rise TV about where artificial intelligence is really taking us, and where we’re still thinking far too small. AI is often compared to the discovery of fire, the invention of the wheel, or even electricity. Those comparisons are dramatic, but they’re not entirely wrong. These weren’t just inventions. They were enabling forces. They expanded…