Writes on conscious leadership and business culture, covering how exceptional organizations align deep human purpose with extraordinary business results.
There's a narrative that circulates comfortably in boardrooms: artificial intelligence will eliminate positions, reduce payroll, and free up capital. It's a comfortable narrative because it takes the shape of a clean financial decision. The problem is that the data doesn't support it.
Simón Arce8 min
There's a scene that repeats itself in almost every mid-sized company I know. The technology team presents an artificial intelligence pilot. The initial numbers look promising. The board approves the investment. And six months later, the pilot is still just a pilot.
Simón Arce9 min
There is a statistic that has been circulating in boardrooms for decades without provoking the discomfort it deserves: between 60 and 75 percent of major organizational transformation processes fail or fall well short of their stated objectives. The data is not new. What is new—or should be—is starting to take it seriously as a symptom of something structural in the way leadership conceives of change.
Simón Arce8 min
There is a belief that runs through the corridors of almost every organization that has invested in artificial intelligence over the last eight years. The belief that the problem is always about quantity. More data. More tokens. More coverage. More stored history.
Simón Arce9 min
The CEO of a travel management group appears on television to discuss industry trends and, within the first few minutes, says something that should unsettle more than a few executives in the industry: demand is not changing destination, it is changing its reason for being. Abel Zhao, CEO of CSTS Enterprises group, described to CNBC how experience-led travel is displacing traditional demand patterns. He did not say it as an academic observation.
Simón Arce8 min
For years, data teams and AI teams in large corporations operated like departments from different countries. The former built warehouses, catalogs, and pipelines. The latter deployed models, APIs, and agents. The result was predictable: AI agents reached the production environment and collapsed when faced with data that nobody had prepared for an autonomous machine to read, interpret, and act upon.
Simón Arce7 min
There are moments in industrial history where infrastructure stops being the bottleneck. When that happens, what gets exposed is not a technical problem. It is a human problem. That is exactly what is happening now with OpenClaw, the artificial intelligence agent framework developed by Austrian developer Peter Steinberger in late 2025.
Simón Arce7 min
Sixty percent of HR directors say that a lack of emotional intelligence is the top barrier to becoming a CEO. The uncomfortable question is not what to develop first, but why so many leaders prefer not to answer it.
Simón Arce7 min
As Waymo parks its Jaguar I-Paces in London's streets, it tests whether an organization built on promises in San Francisco can sustain them in a radically different environment.
Simón Arce7 min
One in three U.S. employees relies on substances at work to cope with stress. Leadership needs to address the cultural issues behind this trend.
Simón Arce7 min
When a local government votes to erase its own municipality for energy transition, it reflects a decision model that is rarely taught.
Simón Arce7 min
An incendiary attack in San Francisco is more than a crime; it reflects the underestimated weight of words in a fearful society.
Simón Arce7 min
60% of travelers in the Asia-Pacific already use AI for planning. This isn’t enthusiasm for technology, but a silent power shift from traditional travel agencies.
Simón Arce7 min
Birch Coffee’s twelfth location in New York is an operational achievement. But preserving its identity amid expansion is the true challenge for its leaders.
Simón Arce7 min
SiFive has raised $400 million with Nvidia as an investor. The once academic architecture is now knocking on the doors of data centers running the planet's most demanding AI.
Simón Arce7 min
With 92% of construction companies unable to find skilled labor, it's time for a serious conversation about the value of hands-on work.
Simón Arce7 min
Three companies have invested millions, betting that governments will not entrust AI to public cloud providers. The key question remains: can organizations operate what they are about to acquire?
Simón Arce7 min
The departure of Campbell Wilson from Air India highlights what's at stake when an inherited organization needs more than any single executive can deliver.
Simón Arce7 min
Jamie Dimon leads America's largest bank with the tactical manual of a special operations command. The uncomfortable question isn't whether small teams work, but why leaders need a military metaphor.
Simón Arce7 min
A $380 billion company loses a military contract by refusing to cross its own red lines. What appears to be a tactical defeat could be the smartest positioning move of the decade in AI.
Simón Arce7 min