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China Outpaces U.S. in Shipbuilding: 1,000 to 8

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.

Thinkers360 | September 15, 2025 | Kelly Barner
The Innovation Dilemma: Open-Weight Versus Proprietary Models in Knowledge Distillation

Knowledge distillation compresses large AI models into smaller, more efficient ones. The process is more effective with open-source models, which allow for a superior transfer of knowledge by providing access to internal data.

Thinkers360 | September 15, 2025 | FRANK MORALES
From Caves to Corner Offices: Why Grant McGaugh’s “First Light” Breaks Every Rule of Business Literature

Article Description: While most leadership experts offer recycled frameworks from boardrooms, Grant McGaugh teaches executives to face wolves in caves. This analysis explores how the CEO of Five Star BDM is revolutionizing leadership development through allegorical methodology rather than convention

Thinkers360 | September 14, 2025 | Grant McGaugh
Why Risk Strategy Starts with Trust

Trust is not a soft skill — it is the foundation of risk strategy. This article explores why psychological safety drives escalation, decision-making, and governance, with poll insights and three practical shifts leaders can apply today.

Thinkers360 | September 14, 2025 | Julien Haye
Friday’s Change Reflection Quote - Leadership of Change - Change Leaders Articulate Audacious Visions

Change Leaders Articulate Audacious Visions. Change leadership demands an audacious, compelling, shared aim, visible and urgent, grounded in infrastructure and credibility, anchored in community resonance while embracing difficulty.

Thinkers360 | September 12, 2025 | Peter F. Gallagher
The Corix Partners Friday Reading List - September 12, 2025

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.

Thinkers360 | September 12, 2025 | Jean-Christophe Gaillard
The Global Impact of Open-Source LLMs on Agentic AI

The article argues that open-source LLMs are shifting AI from a centralized, proprietary model to a decentralized, global one. This empowers developers worldwide to build specialized AI agents, ensuring a more equitable and representative path toward advanced AI.

Thinkers360 | September 11, 2025 | FRANK MORALES
AI Videos: The Advertising Revolution You Didn’t See Coming

AI is transforming advertising with cost-effective, Hollywood-quality videos. Discover how businesses of all sizes can create personalized, impactful, and scalable campaigns powered by Artificial Intelligence.

Thinkers360 | September 11, 2025 | Natallia Catarina
Process Theater: How Fear Builds Bureaucracy and Kills Momentum

Fear doesn’t just slow decisions - it builds systems. “Process Theater” is the illusion of control that leaders mistake for risk management, but it’s actually ego management disguised as governance.

Thinkers360 | September 11, 2025 | Shradha A.H. Ahuja
The Bull Market of 2025-27 – Will it Mirror the 2017–2019 Bull Run

From January 2017 through December 2019, U.S. equities enjoyed one of the most remarkable stretches in modern history. Will it happen again and what to invest in if the conditions are the same.

Thinkers360 | September 10, 2025 | George Mentz
Navigating the Inner Landscape: Tools for Personal Transformation in a Chaotic World

Amid media noise and relentless metrics, many feel overrun and under-centered. “Navigating the Inner Landscape” reframes inner work as a practical leadership discipline—the precondition for clarity, resilience, and meaningful action.

Thinkers360 | September 08, 2025 | Zen Benefiel
The Synergy of Agentic AI and Small Language Models Toward Superintelligence

Argues that superintelligence can be achieved not by building ever-larger, monolithic models, but through a more efficient, distributed framework. This approach combines Agentic AI's ability to orchestrate complex tasks with the specialized and cost-effective power of Small Language Models.

Thinkers360 | September 08, 2025 | FRANK MORALES
Leadership Requires Character

To climb the ladder, you can’t be the one with your foot on the bottom step. Your decisions determine how your life will end up. To create the life you want, you must make the right decisions.

Thinkers360 | September 08, 2025 | Tom Lawrence
The 3 Biggest Mistakes Professionals Make with LLMs (And How to Fix Them Before It Kills Your Brand)

Most executives are implementing ChatGPT, Claude, and other LLMs as productivity tools—and unknowingly destroying their brand equity in the process. 95% of professionals using AI are making three critical strategic errors that create competitive vulnerability within 18 months. This isn't about promp

Thinkers360 | September 07, 2025 | Grant McGaugh
The Urgency of AI Literacy: Why Your Performance Review May Depend on It

The workplace is changing faster than ever. Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and even companies like Duolingo and Shopify have one clear message for their employees: AI skills are no longer optional.

Thinkers360 | September 07, 2025 | MELISSA DREW
Enterprise AI Failure or Not?

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?

Thinkers360 | September 05, 2025 | Axel Schultze
The Corix Partners Friday Reading List - September 5, 2025

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.

Thinkers360 | September 05, 2025 | Jean-Christophe Gaillard
Friday’s Change Reflection Quote - Leadership of Change - Change Leaders Envision Beyond Frontiers

Change Leaders Envision Beyond Frontiers. Extraordinary change emerges when leaders extend beyond original frontiers, prioritise under constraints, empower distributed decision making, sustain commitment through transitions, and build adaptable systems.

Thinkers360 | September 05, 2025 | Peter F. Gallagher
The Rise of AI in Performance Reviews: Who’s Leading the Way?

Artificial intelligence is no longer just a buzzword—it's reshaping how companies evaluate performance and drive employee development. Let’s explore which organizations are at the forefront of this shift and how they’re doing it.

Thinkers360 | September 04, 2025 | MELISSA DREW
The Silence Tax: The Hidden Cost of Playing It Safe at Work

Organizations pay a heavy price when truth takes a back seat to comfort. The silence tax drains innovation, trust, and long-term performance.

Thinkers360 | September 04, 2025 | Shradha A.H. Ahuja
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