The Transformation

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The great AI divide: Europe vs. Silicon Valley

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

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Eric Markowitz

Eric Markowitz is a partner and the Director of Research at investment firm Nightview Capital. A former investigative journalist, with bylines in The New Yorker, GQ, Fast Company, among other[…]

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Change Management

Why 95% of AI rollouts fail and what L&D leaders can do about it

Companies are pouring resources into AI, yet capability gaps hold employees back from using it effectively.

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Christopher Lind

Christopher Lind helps leaders move beyond just deploying technology to building sustainable capability in their organizations. As a former Chief Learning Officer with deep experience in learning, AI, and ethics,[…]

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Business

Why your AI strategy needs guidance from an 82-year-old computer

The incredible story of how the US Army began the march toward generative AI in 1943 — and what it means for your business today.

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Angus Fletcher

Angus Fletcher is a Professor of Story Science and Director of the Leadership Initiative at the Ohio State Fisher College of Business. His new book is the instant national bestseller,[…]

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Business

Leadership philosophy: Why Machiavelli’s “virtù” fits hand-in-glove with AI

Author and geopolitical strategist Paulo Cardoso do Amaral urges us to ask: Will we shape AI with wisdom, or will AI reshape us with strategy?

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Business

Creating wisdom infrastructure for the next 100 years

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

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The “digital dividend”: Rethinking income for the age of AI

Agentic AI pioneer Chetan Dube considers ways that everyone can be lifted by the tide of AI, not just those with the capital to leverage it.

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AI vs. humans: A question of humanity

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

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The Snorre Kjesbu interview: “Collaboration will become truly immersive”

Snorre Kjesbu — SVP & GM of Cisco’s Employee Experience group — has a bold vision for the future of human interaction.

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The end of extraction and the rise of abundance

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

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Our jobs and AI: Why the 4-day week should anchor our work-lives

A reduced working week, argues Juliet Schor, is part of a sane response to the impacts of AI and robotization on human labor.

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Curiosity as a survival skill to navigate change

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

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Michael Watkins: You can’t afford to be a dinosaur

“You need to embrace these systems and try out what’s going on because if you don’t understand it, you really can’t hope to help your organization adapt and stay in front of this momentous, world-changing technology.”

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Michael D. Watkins

Business

The future of the “like” button: Thumbs up or thumbs down?

Will platforms continue to offer the like button as an all-purpose tool — or will each of the button’s various functions exist in new forms?