They were the excel whizzes and the PowerPoint masters, those who could synthesize a rambling meeting into a sleek deck before lunch, or provide the minutes of a meeting held in English, but explained in your native tongue. In my years overseeing leadership talent reviews for MNCs in Asia, managers would often identify, perhaps over-emphasize… Continue reading The AI-Augmented Leader: When Intelligence is Instant and Cheap, Humans are the Difference
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When Everyone Codes: Vibe Coding Tools To Reshape Productivity at Every Level of the Organization
You don’t have the software coding skills to make that app. Just build it. You are on IT’s waitlist. They said they’ll get to your project in 8 months. Just build it. You need that online service, but you don’t want to pay the monthly fees. Just build it. The Coding Language is English You… Continue reading When Everyone Codes: Vibe Coding Tools To Reshape Productivity at Every Level of the Organization
The Principles of Successful AI Adoption: SCBX, A Financial Services Case Study
SCBX Deputy CEO Dr. Arak Sutivong at TechSauce 2024 “Only around 7% of firms currently use AI.” - US Census Bureau, May, 2025 “Some leaders will pursue bottom-line gains strategically; others won’t — and will crash into the limits of quick fixes.” - Forrester, October, 2024 “The gap between what CEOs need to know and… Continue reading The Principles of Successful AI Adoption: SCBX, A Financial Services Case Study
AI’s Greatest Gift: What it Means to be Human and the Emerging Authenticity Economy
It's been a long time since I was fully gratified by a film I had longingly wanted to see – A Complete Unknown, about the Nobel-prize winnin’, free-wheelin’ Bob Dylan. The story was immersive. The actors were embodiments of the originals. And the music was real - no overdubs, no lip-synch, no AI. Timothée Chalamet… Continue reading AI’s Greatest Gift: What it Means to be Human and the Emerging Authenticity Economy
The Whale in the Room: Three Insights on DeepSeek
You win some. You lose some. But when you lose half a trillion dollars in a single day, it's hard to be philosophical. Ask Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of NVIDIA, whose stock price fell off a cliff on Monday, January 27, 2025, taking the stock price of the entire alphabet of tech firms… Continue reading The Whale in the Room: Three Insights on DeepSeek
The Yearly Global Experiment that Shouts: Get Your Sleep!
I can predict the future. On Monday, March 13, 2023, more than any other day, significantly more people will suffer from heart attacks, or be involved in car accidents, in the United States and other parts of the world. On Monday, March 13, 2023, people living in the United States, excepting those located in Hawaii… Continue reading The Yearly Global Experiment that Shouts: Get Your Sleep!
Chat GPT Accelerates “Time to Insight”: Look Out Knowledge Worker! ChatGPT’s Coming for You!
Insight, Not Data We don't want more data, or information, or details. At least not for issues we are trying to better understand. We want insight - different assumptions, new perspectives, credible context - that can lead to new ideas. Friends seek out their inner circle hoping their close friends will have advice. Students go… Continue reading Chat GPT Accelerates “Time to Insight”: Look Out Knowledge Worker! ChatGPT’s Coming for You!
Flying Up the Learning Curve in this New Age of Enlightenment: How Lee Sedol and AI Showed Humanity We Still Have Lots to Learn, and That’s Great!
On March 9, 2016, World Go Champion, Lee Sedol of South Korea, had been roundly defeated in Game 1 by AlphaGo, an AI system designed by DeepMind to play the ancient North Asian board game of strategy. The game of Go is very complex, and defeating Go masters had been the holy grail for AI… Continue reading Flying Up the Learning Curve in this New Age of Enlightenment: How Lee Sedol and AI Showed Humanity We Still Have Lots to Learn, and That’s Great!