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Business & Markets
The reasoning and mindset behind the decisions of executives, founders, and investors.

Clyde Calhoun
Founder & CEO, Root Idea LLC
business
The Governance Trap: Why Finance Leaders Freeze on AI — and How to Break the Paralysis
Most finance leaders know they need an AI governance plan. The reason they don't have one is less about capability than about how the problem gets framed.

Clyde Calhoun
Founder & CEO, Root Idea LLC
business
The Governance Gap: Why AI Has Outrun the Managers Responsible for It
Clyde Calhoun argues that AI is the first major business capability to go mainstream before management figured out how to manage it.

Melanie Clark
Founder & CEO,, Instinctiv
business
The Team Is the Bet: Why Leadership Composition Outranks Strategy
Investors and boards are increasingly clear: the quality of a leadership team predicts long-term performance more reliably than product, market position, or financials.

Jason Ball
Managing Director, Considered Content
business
From Execution to Judgment: What the AI Marketing Reckoning Reveals About Leadership
81% of martech leaders are piloting AI agents, yet only 15% of CEOs trust their CMO to lead on AI. The gap is a leadership story, not a technology one.