Have you ever sat through a presentation where questions are saved for the end? Then someone asks what feels like a planted question, and the presenter responds, "That's such an insightful question..." This rigid, performative dance is a symptom of a deeper design flaw == organizations built for stability in a world that now rewards adaptability. In fact, AWS strategists Jana Werner and Phil Le-Brun argue that most companies fall into one of two archetypes. And knowing which

How would you feel if you knew this post was written by AI? Would that feeling change how you used AI yourself? Put differently: would knowing others might judge you for using AI make you hide it? We're watching "thinkfluencers" make deliberate typos to prove they're human. People are frantically removing em dashes (== "—") from their writing (apparently OpenAI finally found a fix for that tell).  It’s amusing BUT what we see online is only the surface ripple of a much larger

Here's something personal. Growing up in Mumbai in the 1980s, we didn't have much. But my parents gave me something that turned out to be more valuable than any inheritance: permission to be curious. That curiosity never left. Four postgraduate programs. Executive courses at MIT Sloan Executive Education. Countless books and online programs. My wife jokes that I'm allergic to standing still. But here's what I've learned about learning itself: 1/ It changes how you see problem

AI is changing work quickly. The part we talk about less is how it changes us too. Almost a decade back, when I went to a 'digital transformation' class at MIT delivered by Professor Hal Gregersen. I expected a deep dive a technical framework to manage enterprise change. What I experienced was more personal. Hal invited us to examine our identities, the roles we hold, and how disruption forces us to rethink who we are. More recently, I listened to a Hidden Brain conversation

Every CEO call now sounds less like a financial update and more like a playbook for the future of intelligence: data centers + agents + robotics ... IoT Analytics scan of CEO conversations this quarter confirms the transformation I wrote about in early 2024. 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝘁: 𝟭/ 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 → CEOs now talk about capacity and power as existential constraints. Ford’s Jim Farley even flagged the lack of labor to buil

Agent Mode == Macros for Everything Microsoft is transforming Office into an agentic workspace. Copilots can now plan, reason, and iterate across Microsoft 365, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams This is a shift from single prompts to multi-step workflows. Agent Mode is live on the web for Excel and Word via the Frontier program for Microsoft 365 Copilot customers and Microsoft 365 Personal/Family subscribers; PowerPoint coming. Desktop support is planned. Agent Mode

AI passes CFA Level III in minutes. Everyone's asking "will it take our jobs?" Wrong question. The real insight is that we just witnessed the end of knowledge hoarding as a career moat. For decades, professionals built careers on information asymmetry - knowing things others didn't.  Pass the hard test. Guard the expertise. Bill by the hour. That game is over. But here's what's fascinating: As AI commoditizes technical knowledge, something unexpected emerges - the rise of the

Every enterprise AI conversation is an operating model conversation. The headlines focus on job impact, but the trend line is about business model reinvention. Walmart's CEO recently state "AI is going to change literally every job." OpenAI's research confirms frontier models now match industry experts in deliverable quality. BUT here's what I'm seeing accelerate exponentially: We're entering the largest organizational paradigm shift since the industrial and digital revolutio

AI systems can write code and analyze complex data, but ask them about a seahorse emoji and they completely break down. This reveals...