

The CCO is suddenly the hardest C-role to fill
Early 2025, I wrote my first newsletter on AI. It reads now with a certain nostalgia: an earnest reflection on Laloux and the question of what AI would do to our image of human beings in organisations. A touch saccharine, in hindsight. Because AI did not wait for our philosophy. It rolled straight in through the front door, and headed immediately for the place where revenue arrives: marketing and sales. Anyone who opened the Financial Times last weekend will have seen it conf
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Europe doesn’t have a money problem. Europe has a unicorn leadership problem.
Let’s stop kidding ourselves. Europe pours billions into innovation, produces weighty reports on competitiveness and opens one start-up hub after another. And yet our best talent leaves for the United States. Our most promising scale-ups get snapped up by American buyers. We keep playing catch-up in AI, defence tech and biotech. The question is not whether we have a problem. The question is whether we are prepared to be honest about what that problem actually is.The diagnosis
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