The Year’s Most Popular Articles from Thinkers360 Thought Leaders 2025

Gold and Silver’s Appreciation –  Technical Breakouts, Commodity Scarcity. Why Gold and Silver can Run Up with Gold at $10,000 and Silver at $100.

Business Strategy

Selecting the right Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) is essential for organizations striving to achieve their strategic objectives.

Business Strategy | Innovation | Leadership

There are currently about 80 U.S.-flagged ships involved in international commerce compared to over 5,500 China-flagged vessels, and the connection between military shipbuilding and commercial shipbuilding is too strong to ignore.

Risk Management | Supply Chain | Transportation

SELLING IS NOT ABOUT YOU. It’s about the people who can benefit from your knowledge, experiences, and expertise. It’s about getting them from where they are to where they want to be—feeling successful, happy, and fulfilled, ultimately improving the quality of their life.

Marketing | Personal Branding | Sales

Gemini 3 Pro’s superior capabilities (reasoning, multimodality, coding) are due to Google’s “full-stack advantage”—co-designing its MoE architecture with custom TPUs for training and efficient inference.

Predictive Analytics | Generative AI | Agentic AI

By 2025, the metaverse will be essential for businesses. With a $600B market, brands like Nike and Gucci are investing in virtual experiences. The future of work will be immersive, and digital interactions will redefine commerce. Adopting it now ensures leadership in the digital era.

AR/VR | Innovation | Metaverse

This piece examines the challenges posed by the growing world of IoT and outlines a prevention-based strategy. It highlights the threat of connected devices in critical industries, explains how AI can uncover anomalies, and shows ways to strengthen authentication and governance.

Cloud | IoT | IT Leadership

We are not simply entering a new technological era—we are living in one. Artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, the Internet of Things, advanced networks, and space systems are converging into an ecosystem that touches commerce, national security, and everyday life.

Cybersecurity | Emerging Technology | Security

AI can’t deliver its full potential if data is slow, fragmented, or stuck in silos. Overcoming data drag requires a Speed Layer—a real-time data processing system that eliminates bottlenecks and accelerates AI-driven insights.

Agentic AI | Agile | Generative AI

I recently had the pleasure of hosting The Business of Government Hour at CivStart’s State of GovTech 2025. This event convened government executives, technology leaders, startups, and academics to explore innovative solutions for local governments at the intersection of governance and technology.

GovTech

Change Leaders Develop a Vision of Consensus. Change leaders recognise failing systems, develop a compelling vision of consensus, capitalise on external pressures, communicate robustly, and instil stability during radical implementation.

Business Strategy | Change Management | Leadership

Top 10 Leadership and Management links of the week, curated by Corix Partners Founder and CEO JC Gaillard, focusing on cyber security of course, but also a large cross section of subjects including digital transformation, emerging tech, ESG governance and the future of work.

Cybersecurity |  Leadership | GRC

Designing solutions that genuinely resonate with users in today’s fast-paced world is no longer optional; it’s a necessity. HCD (Human-Centered Design) provides a strong framework for ensuring our solutions are functional and meaningful. Based on what I have experienced and learned from, below are…

Customer Experience | Design | Design Thinking

Imagine if every atom in the universe was retooled as a supercomputer. Not a modest step forward, but a breathtaking vault — solving in mere seconds what today’s finest machines would wrestle with for billions of years. That’s the promise of a quantum computer boasting 300 logical qubits.

AI | Business Strategy | Quantum Computing

Commissioning ensures critical systems meet operational requirements, industry standards, and business needs before the facility goes live.

Construction | Data Center | Sustainability

Fossil fuels are fading, but not fast enough. Renewables are cheaper, AI is reshaping energy demand, and policy shifts could stall progress. China leads in clean energy yet builds coal. Hydrogen & carbon capture face scrutiny. The next decade is make-or-break.

Climate Change | Renewable Energy | Sustainability

“Silicon Delta: The Story of Vietnam’s Tech Revolution” traces Vietnam’s 50-year transformation, from post-war recovery to becoming Southeast Asia’s leading digital economy.

AI | Digital Transformation | Innovation

Friends, marketers, brand builders—lend me your loyalty points! I stand before you today not to praise the assertion that loyalty programs are a sign of a weaker brand but to bury it.

CRM | Customer Loyalty | Retail

In today’s AI-driven world, many businesses make the mistake of over-automating customer interactions, creating frustrating barriers between themselves and their clients. While AI enhances efficiency, it should never replace human connection—especially in high-value decision-making.

Agentic AI

One thing is certain – we’re all judgemental! Does coffee make it worse?

Coaching | Culture | Leadership

The rollback of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies in the U.S., particularly in tech, is exacerbating systemic inequities. Women and Black professionals, already underrepresented (26.7% and 4% respectively), are facing even greater barriers as major companies dismantle DEI initiatives.

Diversity and Inclusion | Leadership | Venture Capital

The future of healthcare goes beyond new treatments and drugs. It’s about using AI to change patient care. AI can help us improve workflows and boost medical innovation on a large scale.

AI | HealthTech | Healthcare

A fresh perspective on designing AI systems where trust, consent, and visibility are embedded into the architecture of governance.

Open Source | AI Ethics | AI Governance

Narcissism. Psychopathy. Machiavellianism. AI chatbots have become the most convincing communicators of our age. They are fluent, consistent, and free from the rough edges of human hesitation. But are they awash with the Dark Triad of personality traits?

AI Ethics | Culture | Leadership

This blog explores why Customer Experience Managers are more effective as influencers than traditional line managers. It argues that CX leadership without direct authority fosters collaboration, trust, and lasting change across the organisation.

Coaching | Customer Experience

Gratitude isn’t just a “thank you.” It’s a powerful leadership tool that can build stronger teams, improve workplace morale, and foster deeper connections.

Business Strategy | Entrepreneurship | IT Leadership

Why do so many transformations fail? This article explores how misalignment between people, systems, and strategy, not resistance, derails change, and how frameworks like Prosci and 7S can help make it stick.

Change Management | Business Strategy | Transformation

This blog explores how AI is transforming HR by improving talent acquisition, personalizing training, boosting retention, & enabling smarter talent management. Backed by research & real-world examples, it shows how AI helps HR teams work faster, reduce bias, and focus more on people—not paperwork.

AI | HR | Future of Work

AI adoption is not a technology-first initiative but a leadership-first transformation. Ethical and adaptive leaders must take a front-seat role, guiding organizations through cultural change, employee readiness, and strategic integration of AI.

Big Data | Digital Transformation | Leadership

How structured risk analysis in MEP procurement drives smarter decisions, enhances supplier accountability, and safeguards project timelines in complex construction environments.

Construction | Procurement | Risk Management

Imagine if education wasn’t about memorizing facts for a test, but instead about unlocking the full spectrum of human potential—body, mind, spirit, and even our relationship with the planet and the universe!

Design Thinking | EdTech | Education

Unlock the power of better coaching conversations with this research-backed guide to the four most effective types of questions—Introductory, Mirror, Follow-Up, and Topic-Switch.

Management | Coaching

When you’re selling your business, the numbers matter, but they’re only part of the picture. This blog shares tips on how to craft a compelling narrative that builds trust, showcases your value, and gets buyers excited about what’s next.

Business Strategy | Entrepreneurship | Mergers and Acquisitions

We are pleased to announce our latest round of awards for new reports on key public sector challenges, which respond to priorities identified in the Center’s research agenda.

GovTech | Future of Work | Generative AI

Strategy is not a fixed plan—it’s a continuous learning process. In a fast-changing world, top organizations adapt by experimenting, refining, and discovering new ways to drive performance. Learn why fixed plans do not work and how learning organizations stay ahead.

Innovation | Management | Leadership

Your culture says one thing, but your people experience another? That gap isn’t random — it’s driven by implicit dynamics that go unspoken but shape everything. The good news: once you name them, you can transform them. Coherence. Trust. Real evolution. It starts with awareness.

Coaching | Leadership | Transformation

If you’re an innovation consultant, intrapreneur, or leader struggling to get buy-in for your ideas, then Breaking Innovation Barriers by Gijs van Wulfen is a must-read. This book provides you with 15 proven strategies to overcome corporate resistance and gain management support.

Design Thinking | Innovation | Open Innovation

Trust at work doesn’t take years—it takes intention. Discover the Four Yeses that build stronger teams, accelerate trust, and create real workplace relationships.

Careers | Coaching | Leadership

For AI experts, building automation means an ethical imperative: we must actively prevent algorithmic bias and ensure transparency (XAI) and accountability in every decision. Our aim is just, human-centric automation, ensuring efficiency never trumps fairness or societal well-being.

Agentic AI | AI

Reputation is a company’s most valuable asset. Discover why sometimes saying ‘no’ to a lucrative deal protects long-term trust and brand value.

Behavioral Science | Entrepreneurship | Leadership

Digital transformation fails when teams confuse data access with data usability. Insights from the B2B Connect Summit show that alignment, structure, and findability—not more tools—are the keys to unlocking AI, personalization, and better customer experiences.

AI | Digital Transformation | ERP

Pharma is moving direct-to-patient with flat cash pricing, telehealth, and home delivery. This non-sales brief maps current programs, explains who benefits and who doesn’t, and offers practical steps for clinicians, payers, and health leaders to manage cost, continuity of care, and privacy from 2024.

Customer Experience | Healthcare | Innovation

Overcoming traditional approach for technology validation for new science and technology.

Climate Change | Renewable Energy |  Sustainability

If you raise up another person, you are also raising yourself up. As the leader, you are responsible for the development of your team. It is your job to make them better.

Culture | Leadership | Transformation

What if data visualization distorted truth as badly as Mercator maps distort continents? Misleading visuals can skew decisions, erode trust, and misrepresent reality. This article explores the M.I.S.S. pitfalls and the P.L.U.G. framework to create visualizations that inspire clarity and confidence.

Analytics | Big Data

As Thinkers360’s Ambassador for Sustainability, I’m calling on leaders in every field to use their influence for a regenerative future. Sustainability isn’t a niche—it’s everyone’s responsibility.

Leadership | Project Management | Sustainability

Changing your brand, learn from one of the biggest failures in 2025

Business Strategy | Customer Loyalty | Marketing

AI is reshaping enterprise operations, but without governance, automation can quickly create compliance, ethical, and data-integrity risks. This article explores how enterprises can embed responsible AI and governance frameworks into CRM and MDM systems to scale transformation safely.

AI Governance | Digital Transformation | Healthcare

For middle managers navigating hybrid work, digital transformation, and performance pressure, AI can feel like a godsend. But without ethical oversight, it becomes a governance risk. So would you let AI fire someone?

AI Ethics | Leadership | Management

Marketing today is unthinkable without automation and digitalization.

AI | Generative AI | Marketing

Leadership transitions are among the most significant—and often most stressful—periods in an organization’s life. Whether planned well in advance or triggered by unexpected events, succession impacts every layer of a company.

Leadership | HR

Today’s work environment is fueled by uncertainty, AI overload, and emotional burnout. The workplace is a psychological pressure cooker. And guess what? No amount of corporate jargon will fix that. Here’s how leaders help employees succeed.

Business Strategy | Leadership | Transformation

“Protecting the brand” has become fear disguised as strategy. Nike gained $6 billion by taking risks. Kodak invented digital photography but died protecting film. The uncomfortable truth: standing still isn’t safe anymore.

Business Strategy | Digital Transformation | Marketing

Transformation requires an intentional program that supports the affects on an organization’s culture, both employees and customers alike.

Culture | Digital Transformation | Transformation

An orderly wind-down is a test of governance maturity. This article shows how boards, founders, and executives can plan closure responsibly, protect clients, and preserve trust while meeting regulatory expectations.

Business Continuity | Business Strategy | Risk Management

Adaptability over features: Building an AI Strategy that won’t be obsolete next Tuesday.

Agentic AI | AI | IT Strategy

For years, boards have been approving multi-million-dollar AI and digital transformation projects. Yet many are failing, not because of the technology, but because of a foundational flaw in the type and quality of data collected.

AI | IoT | Digital Twins

A mental wellbeing aspect too few want to address. Whilst we focus on creating good habits, how about the impact that habits have in general?

Health and Wellness | Mental Health

Making a decision re: whether you want centralized (HR owns it) or decentralized (each department owns it) succession planning dictates the whole process.

Entrepreneurship | HR | Leadership

Stablecoins are no longer on the fringe – they’re becoming part of U.S. financial infrastructure. With the passage of the GENIUS Act, Washington has introduced the first federal framework for regulating payment stablecoins.

Cryptocurrency | Emerging Technology | FinTech

Why do executives overlook the value of their PMOs? Even high-performing PMOs can deliver flawlessly yet stay invisible to executives. Learn how cognitive biases distort value perception and how to turn unseen success into visible recognition.

Project Management

There’s something oddly clarifying about high-stakes, high-focus seasons, like studying for the bar exam after 50. For me, bar prep became an unexpected laboratory for self-awareness. In the middle of intense reading, memorization and simulated exams, I stumbled upon something that felt surprising!

Coaching | Mental Health

Excel has evolved from a productivity tool into an improvised infrastructure underpinning critical business processes.

Agentic AI | Digital Transformation | IT Strategy

Dr. Elie Daher urges professionals to break free from comfort, embrace reinvention, and build a personal brand for success in today’s Hybrid Economy of knowledge, visibility, and trust.

Change Management | Leadership | Personal Branding

As AI reshapes how we think, Futurist Morris Misel explores how leaders can reclaim independent thought through foresight, HUMAND™, and Decision Trust Zones™, turning wisdom into tomorrow’s greatest human advantage.

AI Ethics | Future of Work | Leadership

If the logic is wrong — execution logic for an innovation-type problem — then the race is already lost at the start.

Innovation | Open Innovation | Project Management

Of all the roles within the supply chain, few are as pivotal as that of the planner. Their ability to influence the smooth and responsive flow of goods and services is unparalleled. Yet it is not the grand strategic initiatives that define the true excellence of a planner.

Business Strategy | Leadership | Supply Chain

Lyzr has raised $8 million in Series A funding, led by Rocketship.vc, with participation from GFT Ventures, Accenture Ventures, Firstsource, Plug and Play, BGV, Partnership Fund for New York City, and Arka.

AI | Venture Capital | Agentic AI

A recent MIT Report classified Enterprise AI as a failure. Many, however, argued that it is not; it is actually a great progress as more people use ChatGPT than enterprises offer on their side for their employees. It’s still a failure, and teams just help themselves, isn’t it?

Agentic AI | AI | AI Infrastructure

The future isn’t arriving in 2030. It’s already being built for 2026.

AI | AR/VR | Generative AI

If you’ve ever dived into any sort of digital twin discussion, you’ve probably noticed a sea of buzzwords, conflicting definitions, and, let’s be honest, a fair bit of vendor hype … So, why all the confusion? And how on earth do you make sense of it all?

Emerging Technology | Digital Twins | Metaverse

A thought leader is an individual or company that clients, peers, and other stakeholders recognize as one of the foremost authorities in a selected field of expertise. True thought leaders give back to the business community or society, but also profit significantly from their status.

Business Strategy | Marketing | Personal Branding

Behavioural science is redefining how brands think, communicate, and grow. Instead of guessing what customers want, companies are now decoding the psychological triggers that drive decision-making — and it’s changing marketing forever.

AI | Behavioral Science | Business Strategy

Even the most effective leaders struggle when the environment around them becomes misaligned. Discover how subtle fractures in your ecosystem can erode credibility and have a significant impact.

Culture | Ecosystems | Leadership

Most salespeople don’t fail because of their customers but because they doubt themselves. This article shows why confidence and clarity matter more than clever arguments when raising prices — and how the right mindset turns a tough price talk into a moment of trust.

Sales

In 2026, Speed and Automation Wins in Cybersecurity.

Cybersecurity

Before you rush out to build the network you think you need, discover the one you already have.

Careers | Coaching | Social

For entrepreneurs, content creators and independent professionals, the digital landscape has changed rapidly. In the past, having a presence was enough. Today, the question is no longer “do you show up?” — it is “are you perceived and relevant?”

Personal Branding

Change rarely fails because people resist. It fails because trust leaks away. This article explores the illusion of commitment, the real cost of distrust, and how leaders can plug the leaks to create change that lasts.

Change Management | Future of Work | Leadership

When imagination meets execution, stories can change the world. The Solutionaries – Project Management Institute’s new docuseries with TIME Studios – celebrates innovators turning bold ideas into scalable impact and shows why disciplined creativity and project management are key.

Sustainability | Marketing | Project Management

Personal Branding Predictions for 2026. By Monica Couttolenc, Executive & Career Coach

Personal Branding | Coaching | Careers

Organizations don’t struggle because they lack data, they struggle because teams interpret performance differently. When finance, operations, and leadership work from competing definitions of success, even the best systems fail. True transformation starts with a shared performance model.

Digital Transformation | Finance | Transformation

These 10 represent those of my 2025 posts that scored the highest number of views, comments and reposts during the year.

Leadership

The Hidden Cyber War on Wheels: Why Electric Vehicles Have Become a National Security Concern

AI Governance | Cybersecurity | National Security

A startup called SPhotonix says its fused-silica ‘memory crystal’ has reached a deployment-ready milestone for cold data.

Analytics | Big Data | Cloud

As leaders, we all have portfolios of work that we’re responsible for, here’s your reminder to clean up the project zombies!

Project Management

2026: The Year Thought Leadership Becomes Distributed

Marketing | Personal Branding