Automation Won’t Drive Innovation; Cost Cuts Won’t Fuel Growth
You can't automate your way to innovation. And you can't cut your way to growth. https://briansolis.substack.com/p/ai-darwinism-and-the-new-roi-return
AI Darwinism vs Leadership: Who Will Survive?
The race between AI Darwinism and leadership decides who evolves and who doesn't... Please read and subscribe 🙏 https://briansolis.substack.com/p/the-new-ai-divide-companies-that
CEOs Exit, Demand AI‑Savvy Leaders for Next Transformation
Two iconic CEOs announced that they’re stepping aside and called for a new genre of leader in an era of AI. Coca-Cola’s James Quincey said the company now needs “someone with the energy to pursue a completely new transformation of...
Augment Humans to Evolve; Cost‑Cutting Leads to Extinction
Navigating AI Darwinism: Why companies that augment human potential will evolve, while those obsessed with cost-cutting and efficiency face extinction. https://open.substack.com/pub/briansolis/p/the-new-roi-why-return-on-intelligence
Shift From Digital to AI-First: Innovate in 20 Minutes
Goodbye digital transformation, Hello AI-First business transformation 👋 20 minutes to change your mindset from iteration to innovation. 🎬 https://briansolis.com/2026/04/goodbye-digital-transformation-hello-ai-first-business-transformation/
AI's Trust Crisis: Leaders Must Rebrand Now
Fear is rising. Trust is falling. And the AI industry has no one to blame but itself. AI leaders like Dario, Sam, Zuck, and Mustafa can do something about it. https://briansolis.substack.com/p/ai-has-a-branding-problem-ai-native
Success Comes From What’s Outside Your Business Plan
I've started several companies. Of them, we sold 2 and merged 1 into another successful company. None gave me a life changing exit. But each set the stage for what came next, and I'm thankful. These words by @JesseItzle are worth...
AI Should Reinvent Work, Not Just Cut Costs
Too many leaders see AI as a cost (or job)-cutting tool. There are other ways to tink about it. In this short video, I explain why the real opportunity is rethinking work, value creation, and leadership in an AI-first world....
Your Role Shapes the Future with ServiceNow Futures
The future will happen to you or because of you. Introducing @ServiceNow Futures 🔭 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/briansolis_putaitoworkforpeople-ai-quantum-activity-7450577267103121408-zhda
Leaders Trust AI Over People, Yet Value Remains Concentrated
🤔AI leadership stats 👀 1) 62% of UK leaders use AI to make the majority of their 2) decisions. 3) 70% second-guess themselves when AI disagrees. 4) 46% rely on AI more than colleagues. 5) 65% say decision-making has become less collaborative since adopting...
AI Divide: Exec Praise vs Employee Anxiety
"Different realities are happening inside the same company. Executives are celebrating time saved and progress made. employees are quietly paying an AI tax through rework, uncertainty, and rising anxiety. When those realities drift apart, AI does not scale." https://briansolis.substack.com/p/the-ai-divide-is-a-leadership-crisis
Leaders Overestimate AI Impact, Missing Workflow Integration Gap
When you ask leaders whether their organizations are actually operating differently, whether decisions are faster, outcomes more autonomous, models of work truly reinvented, the honest answer is often a hesitant, “no.” This creates an enterprise transformation gap between AI that thinks...
Act Now: Hesitation Lets Others Claim Your Spot
Just heard this... When you hesitate or over think, someone else takes your spot. Life doesn't care about potential. The world rewards those who step forward. So, stand up, and go act like the universe owes you a seat at the...
AI Tax: Hidden Human Labor Behind Low-Quality AI Content
AI Tax" is the hidden, often invisible, cost of working with artificial intelligence. It describes the additional human labor required to review, correct, rewrite, and validate low-quality, generic AI content, aka AI Slop.
Upgrade Your Mindset, Not Just Your Tools
Thank you @davidarmano 🙏 Most books about change tell you how to keep up. Mindshift quietly calls that out for what it is; survival thinking. Brian Solis makes a sharper point: in a world where disruption is constant, reacting is a losing...