Value Creation
The real AI threat is what it's always been: distraction
More bad AI news that will lead to more handwringing... all the while you've got a business to build, and you need trust more now than ever.
Value Creation
Value Creation is the confluence of service design and engagement powered by a deep understanding of your ideal client. How you design and deliver your product/service is the heart of differentiation.
Value Creation
Why They Like You But Won't Hire You: Selling in a Trust-Made Way
This episode is about why nice people get ghosted. Why saying "yeah, I can do that" on a sales call is a death trap. And why you're burning trust all the while they are telling you how much they like you...
Value Creation
The Casino Nobody Warned You About: The latest AI chaos and fear-selling is back in vogue
A sh*tstorm of news from the AI front has settled in, raising the stakes on the fate of the universe, curing cancer, CEO avatars, and AI models so fearsome they dare not be mentioned. What's a CEO to do?
Culture
Gen Z, Philosophy, and the Best Minds of a Generation
Mistakes have been made by attributing the current economic standstill to AI. This degradation is generational. Trying to build a world of shortcuts, not solutions. Vibes, not value. Without a dramatic change in course, it will be the legacy we leave to the world.
Culture
Can credibility beat the algorithm? Sure it can. Here's how.
If you’re in the business of building real trust—premium, custodial, collaborative trust—can you actually win in this environment? Can credibility beat the algorithm? Yes. But not by playing the algorithm’s game.
Podcast
Getting to the root of brain rot: the business consequences of an anti-thinking life
The costs of the attention economy aren't just personal: when a culture stops thinking, stops tolerating friction, and outsources its judgment to machines, the business consequences are real - and they're only beginning to show up.
Value Creation
"We weren't built for this" with Alexandra Pasi, PhD
Podcast Ep: 115: What if the reason work—and life—feels so off is because the very mediums we communicate through are bending us into shapes we didn’t choose? AI founder and mathemetician Lexi Pasi asks the big questions.
Org Design
Outgrowing your ability to grow
Nothing undermines growth like growth. Businesses hit moments in your life cycle where what worked before starts to calcify and sets you on a downward trend. They are unavoidable but solvable problems. Here's how.