Innovation

Digital Transformation, Executive Coaching, Innovation

The Richest Mathematician in History

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Jim Simons died as the richest mathematician in history. He made his fortune by hiring scientists and refusing to hire anyone from Wall Street. The Medallion Fund delivered ~39% net annual returns for thirty years — beating Buffett, Soros, Lynch, Cohen, and Dalio combined. The six principles that produced those returns are now the foundational operating principles of every AI-native organization. Most enterprises still haven’t adopted them. Here’s what they’re getting wrong.

Executive Coaching, Innovation

Gish Gallop

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In 1994, anthropologist Eugenie Scott coined the term “Gish gallop” to describe a debate technique where a speaker overwhelms an opponent with so many false claims that no rebuttal is possible in the time available. The technique has now migrated from creationist debates into the default information environment of senior decision-making — and AI has industrialized it. Here’s how to recognize it and how to defeat it.

Executive Coaching, Innovation

That’s Why Their Careers Are Silent

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A waterfall would never sound melodious if there weren’t rocks in its way. The very thing we love about waterfalls is created entirely by the obstacles we’d remove if we could. Most executives spend their careers trying to smooth the path. That’s exactly why their careers are silent — and why AI is the biggest rock the executive class has encountered in a generation.

AI, Digital Transformation, Innovation

A Tufts Neuroscientist Used Machine Learning to Solve a 100-Year Mystery

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In 2021, a Tufts neuroscientist named Erik Hoel proposed that dreams exist to keep the brain from overfitting to everyday life — exactly the way dropout prevents overfitting in AI. The hypothesis explains why senior leaders, calibrated against decades of same-industry inputs, gradually lose the ability to lead through change. The fix — what I call “executive dropout” — is the most important leadership discipline of the next decade.

AI, Executive Coaching, Innovation

Career Advice for the AI Transformation.

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Edward de Bono coined the term “lateral thinking” in 1967 and compressed the entire framework into one sentence: “You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.” Most senior executives in 2026 are digging a deep hole in the wrong location — with all the wrong instincts, all the right credentials, and a culture that rewards intensification over reorientation. This is what to do instead.

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