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Strategic Finance What CFOs Need When Everyone Wants AI Money Funding requests for AI initiatives are coming in faster than most companies can evaluate them. Two systems—PI Planning and Initiative Funding Gates—turn them into one coordinated and agile portfolio. Leadership You Didn’t Start This, but You Own How It Ends The project plan you inherit might be right. Or it might not be. Here's the process to figure that out, and do a healthy reset. Brand Strategy The Market Stall Never Went Away Most companies lose something when they scale. Ghanda industrialised the feedback loop they started at a Torquay market stall. Product Strategy The Scuff Is the Point The leather will scuff. Not may. Will. What Poly & Bark's Sorrento makes visible about objects that improve by being used. Transformation Transformation Initiatives: The Fastest Way to Become AI-Native Most enterprises try to become AI-native by buying licences and running training. The transformation program is the better beachhead. Opinion The Rise of the Strategic Doer The diminishing gap between idea and done. Non-Profit Pirates for the Planet Some ideas arrive quietly. Others show up with a 270-ton retired ferry, a pirate brigade, and a vision bold enough to rewrite the future of one of New York City's most polluted waterways. The Creator Economy She Modeled the Numbers. Then She Hit Them. How Emma Burke turned a spreadsheet into a $1M creator agency — with a financial roadmap built through The Club. Product Strategy He Made It Slower on Purpose How Alexis Chabat built the most original board in a $4B market. Brand Strategy Boring businesses still work and a community-based GTM Every laundromat competes on being close. Launderette gave up machine space for seating, turned the room into the acquisition channel, and ended up renting it to Brooklinen for events. Consumer Tech The Dates We Don't Put on Our Calendars Birthdays, anniversaries, and the ones no one thinks to write down. Consumer Goods Reimagining Hydration for a World on the Move How Roam is revolutionizing portable carbonation with SodaTop™—bringing premium, sustainable hydration to every moment of life on the move. Parenting Tech The Meltdown Doesn't Wait for the Appointment Lumi is built for the time between sessions, where life happens. Climate Strategy If Every Person Gets an Agent, Why Not Every Ecosystem? Speak for the Trees gives ecosystems agents that read public data and speak on their behalf. Careers Your 9-to-5 Pays the Bills. Your 5-to-9 Builds Your Future. Five things the research says actually work after 7pm — and one famous idea that doesn't. Venture Fame Gets You in the Room. Capital Gets You the Deal. What Anti Fund's $180M actually reveals about attention as leverage — and where the popular version of that story falls apart. Leadership Cab Driver vs. Changemaker The posture that separates the reliable from the indispensable. Leadership Five Minutes and a Manual A cockpit, a clock, and what pressure does to how we decide and communicate. Strategy The False Alignment Trap Most change efforts don't fail on execution. They fail because the people at the top believe they agree — when they quietly don't. Careers The Portfolio Career Do your mix of interesting things. What a portfolio career is for, what it looks like week to week, and where it can go wrong — or unexpectedly right.