AI Adoption Success Is Hiding Behind Your Data
Somewhere right now, a leadership team is approving another AI budget because they got sold on the impressive demo and slide deck an AI company shared with them. According to the numbers Michael Principe, a leader in the AI transformation space, has been tracking from sources like McKinsey, IBM, and BCG, roughly 80% of AI […]
Firing the Right Person for the Wrong Reason
A seat on your team sat empty longer than you wanted. You finally found someone who looked right on every measurement that usually matters. Their resume showed their experience, the interviews gave you all the feel-good moments, and the references – those top logos on them encouraged you to believe this was the one. Then […]
Your People Aren’t the Problem. Your Diagnosis Is.
Every business has a line on the P&L that quietly dwarfs the others, and if you employ people rather than doing every job yourself, that line is your people. According to Training Magazine’s 2025 Industry Report, companies seem to understand this instinctively, which is part of why in America they spent roughly 102.8 billion dollars […]
The Layer You Can’t See from the Deck
The Titanic’s crew saw the iceberg dead ahead. The lookout yelled it out; the officer on watch ordered the turn, but sadly, the ship still went down. What opened the hull was invisible from the deck. It was an enormous body of ice sitting under the waterline, the mass no one had a way to […]
Your AI Strategy Has a Self-Awareness Problem
Most conversations about AI adoption begin with the wrong measurement. Instead, of counting licenses purchased, trainings completed, and dashboard activity, there’s a more effective way to know if your AI strategy is working. Unfortunately, the numbers coming out of 2026 suggest that proof of transformation is thinner than it looks. A May 2026 survey of […]
The Blind Spot Hiding in Your AI Rollout
Why do we use AI? Because the idea behind it is to save us time and help boost our productivity, but does it actually work? In this blog, we are going to explore both the productivity myth and why 62% of breaches are still human. Let’s first look at the productivity myth. A group of […]
Good Friction Is a Leadership Tool. Most Teams Only Have the Bad Kind.
Ask a senior leader what actually keeps them up at night, and it is rarely the strategy deck. It is the quieter fear that somewhere in the organization, on an ordinary Tuesday, one of their people will make a single fast decision that becomes the headline. A wire transfer that never should have left the […]
Two Parts of My Mind Said Click. One Said Noooo.
The emails of two of my colleagues were hacked recently. You might wonder, what does this have to do with me and I’m about to tell you why you shouldn’t just scroll past this one. I opened my email and saw an RFP (Request for Proposal) from a colleague who was planning to engage my […]
The Talent You’re Paying to Lose
Every leader has spent real money getting the right candidates to notice your company. Job board spend, recruiter fees, a careers page that actually reflects who you are as an employer. Every one of those dollars is aimed at getting a qualified person to click apply. What almost no one accounts for is what happens […]
The Hiring Decision You Never Actually Made
Most leaders believe they hire based on sound judgment. A resume comes across the desk, they weigh the experience, picture the person in the role, and make the call. It feels deliberate. It feels like real reasoning. Unfortunately, almost none of it is. The moment a familiar company name shows up on a resume, something […]