Medici Next Inc

More than a decade ago, around the time our CEO’s second book, The Click Moment, was published, leadership conversations became filled with a term that seemed to explain the future: VUCA. Volatility. Uncertainty. Complexity. Ambiguity. It was a useful framework. But for many organizations, it remained largely theoretical. Today, uncertainty isn't theoretical. It's an everyday operating condition. Markets shift overnight. Technology evolves faster than organizations can adapt. Teams are asked...

AI Will Expose Weak Leadership Faster Than Ever

The biggest transformation was often behavioral, not just ideational. One of our earliest innovation experiences took place far from corporate boardrooms. We were working with an NGO in some of the poorest villages in India and Malawi. Many of the people participating were illiterate. And yet what we saw there fundamentally changed the way we thought about innovation. People who had never formally “brainstormed” before were sketching ideas through symbols and drawings, building on each...