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Appearances on CEO.com
Blog Satya Nadella and the cultural transformation of Microsoft
By 2012, Microsoft's stock price had been essentially flat for a decade.
Blog Am I Going to Be Replaced?
Chekhov wrote a two-page story about a clerk who dies of an apology. Every company adopting AI is busy staging it.
Blog Disney and the "Don't Say Gay" bill
Chapek had spent decades inside Disney, most recently running its theme parks and consumer products division
Blog Kodak, Blockbuster, and the leaders who saw it coming
In both cases, the leaders saw the disruption coming and chose not to act.
Blog Howard Schultz and the Starbucks crisis of 2008
When Howard Schultz returned as CEO of Starbucks on January 8, 2008, the company he had built was unrecognizable.
Blog The last time scientists had this much power, they stopped themselves
The moratorium was lifted, but only after the scientific community had designed its own guardrails.
Blog The shift from "Can we build it?" to "Do we understand what should be built?"
The bottleneck was technical access.
Blog Software is no longer something you buy
For decades, technical skill was the bottleneck. Remove it, and the plumber who understands plumbing beats the developer who doesn't.
Blog The weight of 200,000 jobs: A case study in leadership responsibility during the 2023 tech layoff wave
"I take full responsibility for the decisions that led us here."
Blog When knowing isn't doing: Strategic delay and the cost of inertia
IBM knew what it needed to do at critical junctures, but delayed doing so.
Blog Elon Musk and the theology of attention
Musk's attention reveals his values with unmistakable clarity.
Blog Sam Altman and the evolution of OpenAI
OpenAI was founded as a non-profit research lab.