Is AI coming for your job? Depends on who you ask
Astonishingly, the age of AI introduced by the November, 2022 release of ChatGPT has been around long enough that we’re starting to build up what you can think of as […]
Why the party’s over at Party City, but Build-A-Bear Workshop is Thriving
We’ve been talking about the retail apocalypse for quite some time now. And the sector sure has had its problems – from rapacious Private Equity investors who burdened their properties […]
Join me at the Conference Forbes declared one of the top 5 to attend this year- April 29-30 in Dublin
We’ve all been to conferences that are either a bunch of talking heads or even worse, panel after panel after panel without a lot of new insights or actionable ideas. […]
2025: Are you able to turn navigating uncertainty into an asset?
The coming year promises to be one in which long-held assumptions about how business works are going to be thoroughly upended. While this might seem threatening, historically, periods of uncertainty […]
2024 Year in Review: Surprising ways human ingenuity thrives through inflections
There is no shortage of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) to go around. As Futurist Amy Webb points out in her 2024 SXSW talk, we’re in the midst of a […]
Escaping the outrage machine – Is Bluesky becoming a thing?
As my Thought Sparks guest Steven Brill points out, absence of accountability for content posted on social media sites, plus algorithms that favor content likely to attract eyeballs have led […]
“It’s as though the Albanian army was going to take over the world”
Where better to learn about the potential and the pitfalls of AI than at MIT! I was thrilled to join the program as part of the opening panel, “GenAI: Disruptive […]
How powerful women outsmart conventional fashion design
When women first started flooding into professional workplaces in the 80’s, they faced a dilemma – what to wear? High fashion didn’t look professional. Female versions of men’s suits just […]