AI Made Your Team Faster. Here Is Why Your Results Haven’t Changed.

AI Made Your Team Faster. Here Is Why Your Results Haven’t Changed.

by | Jun 9, 2026 | A.I., Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Impact, Disruption, execution, Future Work, Ideas, Leadership, Peak Performance, Speed, Talent, The New World of Work

Your team adopted AI. Code is getting written faster. Proposals are getting drafted faster. Research that used to take hours takes minutes. And your results have not meaningfully changed. You are not imagining it. And it is not a motivation problem. Dario Amodei Named...
The Questions I Ask Every Client Before I Walk On Stage

The Questions I Ask Every Client Before I Walk On Stage

by | Jun 8, 2026 | A.I., Agility, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Impact, Change, Change Leadership, Culture Change, Disruption, Future Work, Keynotes, Leadership, Resiliency, Speaking, Talent, The New World of Work

Most keynotes are forgettable. These keynote speaker preparation questions are why mine are not. Not because the speaker is bad. Not because the content is wrong. Because the content was never built for that specific room. A speaker gets booked. They send their...
The Greatest Living Mathematician Called It Cognitive Friction. Here Is What He Said AI Just Did to It.

The Greatest Living Mathematician Called It Cognitive Friction. Here Is What He Said AI Just Did to It.

by | Jun 8, 2026 | A.I., Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Impact, Brand You, Change, Change Leadership, Disruption, Distinction, Future Work, Ideas, Leadership at all Levels, Peak Performance, Resiliency, Speed, Talent, The New World of Work

His name is Terence Tao. And what he said about cognitive friction and AI last March has not left me since. He won the Fields Medal, the highest honor in mathematics, at 31. Most mathematicians consider him the most gifted pure mathematician alive. He holds a...
The CEO of Citadel Went Home Depressed on a Friday. Here Is What He Saw.

The CEO of Citadel Went Home Depressed on a Friday. Here Is What He Saw.

by | Jun 7, 2026 | A.I., Agility, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Impact, Brand You, Change, Change Leadership, Disruption, Distinction, Future Work, Ideas, Leadership, Leadership at all Levels, Resiliency, Speed, Talent, The New World of Work

The CEO of Citadel Watched AI Do What Used to Take a Team of PhDs AI leadership agentic AI is no longer a future-state conversation. Ken Griffin just made that clear. Ken Griffin is the founder and CEO of Citadel, one of the most successful hedge funds on earth. In a...
CEOs Have Been Blaming AI for Layoffs for Two Years. Jensen Huang Just Called It Out.

CEOs Have Been Blaming AI for Layoffs for Two Years. Jensen Huang Just Called It Out.

by | Jun 6, 2026 | A.I., Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Impact, Change Leadership, Disruption, Future Work, Leadership, Leadership at all Levels, Talent, The New World of Work

The Most Important Thing Jensen Huang Said Last Week Had Nothing to Do With Chips The AI washing CEO layoffs narrative has a problem. Jensen Huang just named it. Jensen Huang was in Taipei. He was being interviewed about NVIDIA’s $100 billion investment in Taiwan, a...