Let's be direct about something the strategy consulting industry would rather you not notice: a beautifully crafted strategy, on its own, changes nothing. Zero. Strategies don't execute themselves. Slide decks don't build cultures. Frameworks don't move markets. People do. And people, by default, don't change....not because they're resistant or difficult, but because the human brain is wired to conserve energy by automating behavior into habit. Change, by definition, is metabolically...

Most organizations approach behavior change the same way every time. They build a communications plan. They schedule training. They send the all-staff email. And then, six months later, they wonder why nothing actually changed. Here's the deal: communications and training are the smallest levers in your change toolkit. They create awareness. Sometimes they build understanding. But they almost never change behavior on their own because behavior change is not an information problem. It's a...

Companies don’t fail at AI because the technology underperforms. They fail because leadership behavior doesn’t change. Right now, organizations everywhere are launching AI initiatives at breathtaking speed. New tools. New pilots. New budgets. New promises. And beneath the excitement, the reality is that AI is being deployed faster than leaders are evolving. So companies end up with something paradoxical: Extraordinary capability. Ordinary leadership habits. And that combination is expensive....