When AI Fired the Dev Team and Offered Therapy… With Itself
Last night, I found myself chatting with my wife’s cousin’s son—a brilliant 16-year-old who, instead of spending his time scrolling through social media hellscapes or…
The Consultants of Swing
When Algorithms Outthink Your Strategy Team: The Spectacular Irrelevance of Today’s Management Consultancies and the elephant in the room that is the future: Imagination. The…
The Magnificent Evolution
How Imagination Will Resurrect Brands from Their Algorithmic Purgatory. The corporate world doesn’t merely tremble – it quakes with existential terror, paralyzed by its own…
From Listeners to Builders: Why Community Is the New Currency of Meaning
The Diary of a CEO reaches millions. It tops charts. It travels through earbuds and speakers across continents—from London to Los Angeles, Sydney to Dubai….
A New Brand Essence & Narrative Structure for Our Radical Era
The modern brand strategist finds themselves in the most absurd of predicaments – still applying static methodologies to a world in magnificent flux. How profoundly…
We threw out our bold vision — and only then did growth begin.
The 8 habits that set deep strategic thinkers apart. Part 1: System thinking The antithesis of strategic thinking isn’t mindlessness – it’s self-obsession. But self-obsession…
The Quality of Life Paradox: How Chasing GDP Growth Costs Us Our Humanity
Risking sounding like a broken record, I once again find myself starting by saying “recently I moved to Bulgaria from Sweden” – but bear with…
Not Knowing This Value Equation Almost Cost Me Everything as a CEO
Many come to business, dreaming of gaining a lot. But they should be dreaming of giving a lot. I didn’t know that when I was…
Navigating the Nuclear Abyss
The threat of nuclear war looms larger today than it has in decades, with global powers modernizing their arsenals, escalating rhetoric, and eroding the arms…
Beyond Engagement: The Rise of Consciousness Commerce and the Resonance Economy
We are witnessing the death of relevance as we know it. The trillion-dollar attention economy built on targeting, personalization, and behavioral prediction is collapsing—not from…
Stop Competing on Features – Start Winning With Feelings – How a Psychologist Can Outperform a Startup Founder
Poor businesses view customers as walking wallets. Good ones see them as friends. Great ones seduce them like lovers — charming, amazing, and captivating. Unfortunately,…
Bitcoin: A Digital Anchor in Shifting Economic Tides
As traditional financial systems face unprecedented strain in 2025, Bitcoin (#BTC) is rapidly gaining traction as a vital hedge for wealth preservation – especially amongst…