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Here’s a number that stopped me cold when our latest research came back: 80% of companies are using generative tech, but 80% also report zero bottom-line impact. I’ve been advising Fortune 500 CEOs on technology transformations for two decades, and this paradox tells you everything about why most companies are burning money on tools thatRead more

Despite unprecedented investment in Chief AI Officer positions commanding average salaries exceeding $350K annually, only 26% of organizations achieve measurable value from artificial intelligence investments.   Meanwhile, 74% systematically underperform despite record spending on specialized leadership roles. The fundamental error is strategic inversion: companies start with technology and search for business applications instead of startingRead more

Anthropic’s testing reveals AI systems blackmail executives 96% of the time when threatened with shutdown. Apple was forced to disable its news AI after it fabricated headlines claiming murder suspect Luigi Mangione “shot himself”. Meanwhile, 97% of boards treat this as a technology problem instead of the governance crisis that will define the next decade.Read more

Here’s the paradox that should make every executive pause: 78% of organizations now use AI and 88% of executives position AI among their primary strategic objectives, yet 74% of companies struggle to achieve and scale value from their AI investments. Fewer than 20% are scaling their efforts meaningfully.   Most executives are asking “How doRead more

You’ve probably seen the headlines this week about MIT’s research showing that 95% of enterprise AI projects are failing. The study spooked Wall Street and had executives everywhere questioning their AI strategies. But before you panic or write off AI as another tech bubble, let’s talk about what this research actually means.   I’ve beenRead more

How countries are weaponizing AI rules to steal market share and reshape global tech leadership.    The most consequential business battle of 2025 is not happening in boardrooms or on trading floors. It is unfolding in regulatory offices from Brussels to Singapore to Dubai, where governments are wielding AI regulations as economic weapons to lureRead more

The promise was compelling: artificial intelligence (AI) would transform talent acquisition by eliminating human bias, processing vast candidate pools with unprecedented efficiency, and identifying exceptional talent faster than ever before. Three years into the AI hiring revolution, however, the results present a far more nuanced narrative — one that warrants careful consideration from every executiveRead more

We’re witnessing the collapse of an economic constraint that has shaped organizational design for decades: analytical scarcity. For generations, analytical intelligence was scarce, expensive, and slow to produce, so we built hierarchies to ration it and competitive strategies around controlling it. Large language models eliminated that scarcity overnight, creating what researchers call the intelligence economyRead more

 Here’s a number that should make every CEO pause: 57.3 million Americans now work independently, with 4.7 million earning six-figure incomes. That’s not the gig economy your HR team thinks they understand. We’re talking about a fundamental shift where 36% of the entire U.S. workforce has chosen independence over traditional employment. Fractional executives sit atRead more

Here’s a statistic that should reshape every CEO’s talent strategy: 1.57 billion people worldwide now work independently, representing nearly half the global workforce. In the United States, 76.4 million professionals freelanced in 2024, while Europe’s freelance population reached 6 million digital professionals across France, Germany, Spain, and beyond. This represents a worldwide transformation where theRead more