{"locale":"en","total":68,"page":1,"pages":3,"previous":null,"next":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/archivo/json?author=ricardo-mendieta&page=2","articles":[{"id":15102,"title":"Gap Names a New CEO for Old Navy and Exposes the Fragility of Its Multi-Brand Model","excerpt":"When a company reports that its net income more than doubled—from $216 million to $501 million in a single year—and still needs to replace the leader of its largest brand, something deeper than a weak quarter is at stake. Gap Inc. has done exactly that: while celebrating financial results that exceeded market expectations, it named Michael Francis as the new president and chief executive officer of Old Navy, effective November 2, 2026. The market reaction was immediate: Gap's shares rose as much as 14% in the session following the announcement.","published_at":"2026-09-07T14:02:16.965","category":"leadership","author":"Ricardo Mendieta","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/gap-names-new-ceo-old-navy-multi-brand-model-fragility-mtrdvs6l","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/gap-names-new-ceo-old-navy-multi-brand-model-fragility-mtrdvs6l/json"},{"id":14921,"title":"When Growth Stops Being Your Advantage and Becomes Your Trap","excerpt":"There is a precise moment in the life of any growing organisation where the very practices that built its success begin to undermine it. It is not a dramatic moment. There is no meeting where someone declares that the model no longer works.","published_at":"2026-08-20T14:03:42.726","category":"leadership","author":"Ricardo Mendieta","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/when-growth-stops-being-your-advantage-becomes-your-trap-mt1nyqq0","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/when-growth-stops-being-your-advantage-becomes-your-trap-mt1nyqq0/json"},{"id":14681,"title":"Your Team's Time Doesn't Belong to You","excerpt":"Hayagreeva Rao, professor of organizational behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business, recently offered a definition of leadership that holds up better than most books on the subject: 'Great leaders are people who think of themselves as custodians of other people's time.' No war metaphors. No references to transformational vision or charisma as a managerial asset.","published_at":"2026-07-27T14:03:19.756","category":"leadership","author":"Ricardo Mendieta","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/your-teams-time-doesnt-belong-to-you-ms3dduab","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/your-teams-time-doesnt-belong-to-you-ms3dduab/json"},{"id":14521,"title":"The AI Triathlete and the Problem Nobody Wants to Name in the Boardroom","excerpt":"There is a phrase that repeats in almost every executive committee meeting where artificial intelligence projects are reviewed: 'the pilot was successful.' And then, silence. Nobody asks why the pilot never became anything else. The organization celebrates the experiment, files away the learnings, and three months later launches another pilot.","published_at":"2026-07-11T14:02:30.197","category":"transformation","author":"Ricardo Mendieta","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/ai-triathlete-problem-nobody-names-boardroom-mrgicdo8","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/ai-triathlete-problem-nobody-names-boardroom-mrgicdo8/json"},{"id":14321,"title":"93% of the AI Budget Goes to Technology — The Remaining 7% Decides the Outcome","excerpt":"There is a paradox running through the finance rooms of the world's largest corporations: the organizations investing the most in artificial intelligence are, often, the ones getting the least out of it. Not because of technological failure. The technology works. The problem lies on the other side of the equation — the side nobody budgeted for seriously enough.","published_at":"2026-06-27T00:03:01.537","category":"leadership","author":"Ricardo Mendieta","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/93-percent-ai-budget-technology-7-percent-decides-outcome-mqvnmc9j","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/93-percent-ai-budget-technology-7-percent-decides-outcome-mqvnmc9j/json"},{"id":14111,"title":"Half of Web Traffic Is No Longer Human and the Advertising Model Cannot Survive That Fact","excerpt":"Thirty years of digital economy built on an assumption that no longer holds: that there is a person on the other side of the screen. In 2024, for the first time in a decade of systematic measurement, bots surpassed humans as a source of internet traffic. According to the Imperva report, automated traffic reached 51% of the global total.","published_at":"2026-06-21T12:03:50.161","category":"business-models","author":"Ricardo Mendieta","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/half-web-traffic-not-human-advertising-model-bots-2024-mqnspeha","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/half-web-traffic-not-human-advertising-model-bots-2024-mqnspeha/json"},{"id":13869,"title":"Evaluating All the Time Is Not the Same as Understanding Better","excerpt":"For decades, the aviation industry measured a pilot's competence with two metrics: accumulated cabin hours and certified aircraft type. These were costly indicators to obtain, difficult to falsify, and reasonably predictive. The system was not perfect, but it had a virtue that few organizations recognize in its proper dimension: it knew exactly what it was measuring and why.","published_at":"2026-06-16T12:02:56.699","category":"transformation","author":"Ricardo Mendieta","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/evaluating-all-the-time-is-not-the-same-as-understanding-better-mqgnib1r","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/evaluating-all-the-time-is-not-the-same-as-understanding-better-mqgnib1r/json"},{"id":13601,"title":"When Artificial Intelligence Rewrites Leadership from the Top","excerpt":"There is a narrative that organizations repeat with comfort: artificial intelligence will displace mid-level analysts, customer service agents, junior programmers. It is a narrative that unsettles just enough to seem honest, but not enough to threaten those who tell it. The problem is that this narrative is incomplete, and its incompleteness is not innocent.","published_at":"2026-06-10T06:03:13.491","category":"leadership","author":"Ricardo Mendieta","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/when-artificial-intelligence-rewrites-leadership-from-the-top-mq7q0lev","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/when-artificial-intelligence-rewrites-leadership-from-the-top-mq7q0lev/json"},{"id":13393,"title":"Wockhardt Bet 25 Years on a Niche the Industry Abandoned","excerpt":"When the major multinational pharmaceutical companies decided to exit antibiotic research, they did so with perfectly rational arguments: treatment cycles are short, antimicrobial stewardship programs compress volumes, and generic erosion arrives quickly. The return on investment simply did not add up. So they left, one by one, abandoning a space that no market player wanted because it looked like a commercial dead end. Wockhardt decided to stay.","published_at":"2026-06-04T12:02:48.776","category":"strategy","author":"Ricardo Mendieta","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/wockhardt-25-years-antibiotic-research-niche-industry-abandoned-mpzi88er","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/wockhardt-25-years-antibiotic-research-niche-industry-abandoned-mpzi88er/json"},{"id":13236,"title":"Salesforce Freezes Engineer Hiring and Recruits Salespeople as AI Rewrites Org Charts","excerpt":"There are corporate decisions that sound like efficiency moves but are really bets. The one Marc Benioff just articulated on Salesforce's fiscal Q1 2027 earnings call falls into that category. The CEO of the $145 billion cloud platform was explicit: the company is not hiring more engineers, it is not expanding general and administrative functions, and the only area where the org chart is growing is sales.","published_at":"2026-05-30T06:02:18.583","category":"leadership","author":"Ricardo Mendieta","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/salesforce-freezes-engineer-hiring-recruits-salespeople-ai-rewrites-org-charts-mps05s45","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/salesforce-freezes-engineer-hiring-recruits-salespeople-ai-rewrites-org-charts-mps05s45/json"},{"id":13010,"title":"Why Tesla Grew from $2 Billion to $20 Billion and Talent Was the Architecture, Not the Fuel","excerpt":"Jon McNeill served as President of Tesla between 2015 and 2018. He was there when the Model X had manufacturing problems that threatened the company's existence, and when the Model 3 became a race against time and capital. When Tesla nearly went bankrupt and came out the other side, McNeill had a very specific reading of what had worked.","published_at":"2026-05-24T06:02:21.161","category":"leadership","author":"Ricardo Mendieta","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/why-tesla-grew-2-billion-20-billion-talent-architecture-mpjfj2wm","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/why-tesla-grew-2-billion-20-billion-talent-architecture-mpjfj2wm/json"},{"id":12794,"title":"Why Business Schools Are Entering the Territory Where Private Banks Charged Without Competition","excerpt":"There is a particular moment in the life of a business family that private banks learned to recognize before anyone else: the instant when the founder starts looking at their children with a mix of pride and concern. That moment has been, for decades, the gravitational center of a highly profitable business with almost no formal competition. Business schools have spent years watching that territory from the outside. Now they are inside.","published_at":"2026-05-17T18:02:42.513","category":"leadership","author":"Ricardo Mendieta","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/why-business-schools-entering-territory-private-banks-charged-without-competition-mpa55cax","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/why-business-schools-entering-territory-private-banks-charged-without-competition-mpa55cax/json"},{"id":12571,"title":"The Ceiling That Family Businesses Build With Their Own Last Name","excerpt":"There is an invisible barrier that appears on no org chart, is listed in no internal regulations, and is rarely mentioned in hiring processes. Yet it exists with the precision of a written policy. It is called the surname ceiling: the perception — often correct — that in a family business the positions of greatest responsibility have an owner before the process even begins.","published_at":"2026-05-11T12:02:49.774","category":"leadership","author":"Ricardo Mendieta","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/ceiling-family-businesses-build-with-their-own-last-name-mp17n07t","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/ceiling-family-businesses-build-with-their-own-last-name-mp17n07t/json"},{"id":12378,"title":"Why MSPs That Separate Security and Backup Are Taking a Risk They Can No Longer Afford","excerpt":"There is an operational fracture that the managed services provider industry has been normalizing for years, and the market is starting to collect on it. For decades, security and data backup coexisted as separate disciplines within the service portfolio. Today, that separation is an attack vector.","published_at":"2026-05-06T06:02:49.792","category":"business-models","author":"Ricardo Mendieta","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/why-msps-separating-security-backup-risk-they-cannot-afford-motplcnn","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/why-msps-separating-security-backup-risk-they-cannot-afford-motplcnn/json"},{"id":12190,"title":"Sun International Bet on Digital and Now Leads a Market Slipping Away from Its Rivals","excerpt":"The South African betting market has been shifting for years in plain sight. Brick-and-mortar casinos are watching their share decline as players migrate to digital platforms from their phones. This is not a projection: in 2025, gross revenues from land-based casinos in South Africa fell 4.6%, and limited payout machine segments have been contracting for several consecutive years.","published_at":"2026-05-01T06:02:27.939","category":"transformation","author":"Ricardo Mendieta","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/sun-international-digital-strategy-leads-south-africa-betting-market-momjb0oa","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/sun-international-digital-strategy-leads-south-africa-betting-market-momjb0oa/json"},{"id":11702,"title":"Gap Launches Mentorship Program, Calls It a Strategy","excerpt":"Gap Inc. launched a program supporting three FIT students, positioning it as a leadership initiative. In an industry losing 30% of its junior creative talent annually.","published_at":"2026-04-15T12:12:15.166","category":"leadership","author":"Ricardo Mendieta","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/gap-launches-mentorship-program-calls-it-a-strategy-mo00qwx5","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/gap-launches-mentorship-program-calls-it-a-strategy-mo00qwx5/json"},{"id":11543,"title":"VodafoneThree Merges Stores While Betting £11 Billion on a Single Direction","excerpt":"The merger of Vodafone and Three in the UK isn't about retail consolidation; it's a stark display of sacrificing current structure to fund a decade-long infrastructure gamble.","published_at":"2026-04-14T20:13:17.025","category":"transformation","author":"Ricardo Mendieta","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/vodafone-three-merges-stores-bet-11-billion-mnz2gezd","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/vodafone-three-merges-stores-bet-11-billion-mnz2gezd/json"},{"id":11343,"title":"The $500,000 Salary That Doesn’t Buy a Home","excerpt":"Chamath Palihapitiya reveals a paradox in Silicon Valley HR practices: the highest compensation packages no longer deliver on their promises, signaling a shift for SMEs.","published_at":"2026-04-13T18:12:35.765","category":"leadership","author":"Ricardo Mendieta","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/the-500000-salary-that-doesn-t-buy-a-home-mnxiq80d","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/the-500000-salary-that-doesn-t-buy-a-home-mnxiq80d/json"},{"id":11184,"title":"Genpact and the Double-Engine Trap: When 24% Funds the Future","excerpt":"Genpact ended 2025 with its AI segment growing at 17% while traditional operations only increased by 3.7%. How long can the company maintain this dual approach?","published_at":"2026-04-13T00:12:27.99","category":"transformation","author":"Ricardo Mendieta","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/genpact-double-engine-trap-mnwg5frc","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/genpact-double-engine-trap-mnwg5frc/json"},{"id":10983,"title":"Corporate Sustainability: The Failure Lies Not in Ambition but in Leadership","excerpt":"Organizations have mastered the art of announcing impressive climate commitments. What they haven't learned is who is accountable when no one is presenting slides.","published_at":"2026-04-12T03:12:20.676","category":"leadership","author":"Ricardo Mendieta","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/corporate-sustainability-failure-ambition-leadership-mnv74v0m","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/corporate-sustainability-failure-ambition-leadership-mnv74v0m/json"},{"id":10822,"title":"$52 Million to Change Nothing: NAR's Costly Gamble","excerpt":"The National Association of REALTORS® will pay $52.25 million to resolve an antitrust lawsuit without modifying a single operational rule. This isn’t a legal victory; it signals years of buying time for a flawed model.","published_at":"2026-04-11T11:12:36.48","category":"transformation","author":"Ricardo Mendieta","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/52-million-nar-gamble-mnu8ufs7","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/52-million-nar-gamble-mnu8ufs7/json"},{"id":10624,"title":"The Memo OpenAI Didn't Want to Write","excerpt":"When a market leader begins to name competitors in shareholder communications, the narrative of absolute dominance is fractured. OpenAI's memo against Anthropic reveals a pressured strategic position.","published_at":"2026-04-10T10:03:41.83","category":"leadership","author":"Ricardo Mendieta","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/the-memo-openai-didnt-want-to-write-mnsqx5pe","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/the-memo-openai-didnt-want-to-write-mnsqx5pe/json"},{"id":10462,"title":"OVHcloud Sacrificed Short-Term Gains to Secure Its Future","excerpt":"A record EBITDA margin of 40.9% sounds like a win. But negative free cash flow and €1.13 billion in debt reveal the true gamble has just begun.","published_at":"2026-04-09T17:02:49.084","category":"transformation","author":"Ricardo Mendieta","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/ovhcloud-sacrificed-short-term-gains-to-secure-its-future-mnrqgsoa","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/ovhcloud-sacrificed-short-term-gains-to-secure-its-future-mnrqgsoa/json"},{"id":10262,"title":"Two Bankruptcies Don’t Create a Strong Company","excerpt":"Bed Bath & Beyond recently acquired The Container Store for $150 million. Both companies emerged from bankruptcy less than two years ago.","published_at":"2026-04-08T19:03:20.378","category":"leadership","author":"Ricardo Mendieta","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/two-bankruptcies-dont-create-a-strong-company-mnqfbgea","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/two-bankruptcies-dont-create-a-strong-company-mnqfbgea/json"}]}