Volatility makes you stronger.
If you build for it.

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Most organizations answer volatility with more strategy and tighter controls. That’s the reflex that breaks them. We’ve spent 25+ years – running parts of eBay, Mozilla, and Google, then working with hundreds of companies from startups to the Fortune 100 – learning what separates the ones that break from the ones that get stronger. We build that into your team. Keynotes, workshops, and advisory for people who actually have to do something on Tuesday.

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What We Do.

Keynotes & Workshops.

Keynotes for audiences who’ve already heard the standard innovation talk. Frameworks the room hasn’t seen, real stories from inside the companies you’d recognize, and concrete next steps for the people who actually have to do something on Tuesday.

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Organizational Training.

Multi-day programs for leadership teams that want to do more than nod along. Structural principles, operational practices, real cases from your industry. Stop playing defense. Start building muscle.

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Twice a week. ~10,000 readers.

Two short essays a week on what’s breaking, what’s rebuilding, and what to do about it. Read by 10,000+ founders, operators, and leaders.

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From the Briefing, Working Theory, and the blog.

August 4, 2026

Closing the Foresight-Action Gap

The first person I heard use “future” as a verb was probably Douglas Rushkoff. That would’ve been about 2018, and Rushkoff was already years into making the argument that a better future depended on having more people actively involved in exploring and shaping futures. He wanted to push us all out of passivity and into agency, into the belief that the future didn’t have to be something that happened to us. It could be something we would meaningfully and intentionally co-create.

I was working for Singularity University then, and Rushkoff’s framing definitely resonated with me. Among the many things we were up to at SU, bringing more people into big conversations about the future and how they could lead as if…

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August 25, 2026 — Working Theory #002

Cheap Intelligence, Expensive Companies

Among companies that have actually put AI into operations, through roughly the end of 2027, the cost of turning AI into operating advantage will be hourglass-shaped in company size – cheap for the very small, affordable for the very large, and worst for firms in the middle (call it fifty to a thousand employees).

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