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Everybody Else Is Doing It: The Most Dangerous Words in Business
Everybody Else Is Doing It: The Most Dangerous Words in Business AI didn’t create corporate herd mentality. It just gave executives a very expensive new way to practice it. There is a dangerous phrase hiding inside many executive meetings: “Everybody else is doing it.” It rarely sounds that simple. Executives dress it up with words…
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Optimism Is Killing You: Founders Need a Professional Skeptic
Optimism Is Killing You: Founders Need a Professional Skeptic Startup founders in nascent ecosystems get a lot of encouragement. That is not a bad thing. Starting a company is hard. There are plenty of days when nothing seems to work, customers disappear, technology breaks, funding gets tight, and the team starts questioning whether the whole…
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Being Busy is Not the Same as Successfully Launching Startups
Being Busy is Not the Same as Successfully Launching Startups Being busy is not the same as building my startup, and I really want to start there because I learned that the hard way. For a long time, I thought that if my calendar was full, my inbox was overflowing, and I was constantly switching…
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Amazing Tech Founders Find Answers Faster
Amazing Tech Founders Find Answers Faster The dangerous idea I hear floating around entrepreneurship: the founder is supposed to know everything. The founder should know the market, the technology, the customer, the competition, how to raise money, how to build a team, how to set prices, how to sell the product, and somehow predict what…
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The Most Expensive AI Mistake? Draining Your Institutional Knowledge on a Whim.
The Most Expensive AI Mistake? Draining Your Institutional Knowledge on a Whim. Executives are under enormous pressure to use artificial intelligence. Investors want higher productivity. Boards want lower costs. Competitors are announcing AI strategies. Leaders fear being left behind. That pressure can lead to a dangerous question: “How many employees can we replace with AI?”…
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The Most Dangerous AGI Decision? Deploy First. Think Later.
The Most Dangerous AGI Decision? Deploy First. Think Later. You can’t have a conversation these days without speaking about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). But I find people asking the wrong question about AGI/AI. “Will AI take our jobs?” That question is already outdated. AI is not coming. It’s here. It’s writing…
