Clarity at the Top

Your competitors are firing their employees. They're getting rid of people and trying to conserve their cash flow, but by doing that, they're cutting their margins and their growth potential.

What should you do? You're going to hire more people, give each of your employees their own team of experts, and give each of them an AI swarm that can self-replicate. That swarm will give each employee not 5, not 10, not 50, but 100 or several hundred of the world's smartest people.

You're going to take this opportunity when your competitor shows their hand, revealing that they're weak and scared. You're going to grow and conquer. You're going to hire and grow. This is your moment.

Don't fall for all the hype in the media and the news. When you see fear, you double down.

See you on the next podcast.

Thomas Anglero

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The career killers in corporations are the people who believe that, by not using AI or by lying to their leaders, superiors, and colleagues about using AI while secretly not using it, they are having a quiet protest. They're killing their careers, potentially hurting their families, and preventing them from being able to feed their families, pay their mortgage, pay their bills, and have a high-quality life.

You want to stop AI and make it better? Then you better master it. How do you defeat your enemy if you know nothing about him?

This episode of Clarity at the Top goes deep into a meeting I attended at Pratt Institute, where I observed the student body and faculty fighting against AI by verbally denying its existence. What I saw was the beginning of an extension-level event for those students and faculty members who believe that, by ignoring something, it will go away.

AI's tsunami is not just one wave, but a continuous wave that eventually looked like a straight line for the rest of our time as human beings on this planet. Fight the resistance by knowing thy enemy. AI is coming, AI is here, and you can't stop it now. The genie's out of the bottle.

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Technology is moving at an incredible pace. Your day is still full, and more full than it has ever been before. You don't have time to catch up, learn about anything new, or take care of yourself. How to fix this? How to fix yourself? How to fix your career?

The secret is 1 minute a day. The secret is prioritizing you. The reward is your career, your friendship, your relationships, and you. Your free time is only 1 minute away.

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I was talking to a leader the other day who did so well when they got feedback from a client on a submitted contract. The client had given them feedback that they felt guilty because they use AI. Don't feel guilty when you use AI. AI is the standard.

AI is like asking, "Do you use a calculator to calculate difficult numbers at work?" Of course you use a calculator. No one's embarrassed. It's the standard. Using AI is the standard, and you are setting the new standard.

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AI leaders are making so much noise to distract you from what's actually going on. What's actually going on is that AI is about to go to the next level, and it's going to achieve AGI. Your dreams of what you could do with AI for your company, your business, and your personal life are literally right around the corner. Right at this precise moment, they want you to look the other way. Don't be distracted, don't fall for their lies, and double down. Go for it.

Thomas Anglero

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The AI Gap between AI-savvy leaders and those lagging behind is widening exponentially. Lacking AI integration means missing knowledge, experience, and foresight, putting your business at risk. Adapt now to stay ahead.

#AIEvolution #Leadership #BusinessStrategy #FutureOfWork #DigitalTransformation

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Many leaders struggle to scale AI pilot projects beyond their initial phase. A key reason is that these pilots are often designed to be small-scale, like a chihuahua that can never grow into a larger breed. This limitation stems from outdated LLMs (older than 2-3 months), which lead to excessive costs and poor output due to rapid AI innovation.

Furthermore, the wrong leadership can derail projects. Is the person heading the AI initiative truly visionary, or were they chosen based on title or popularity? Finally, consider the problem statement. Did you clearly define what you needed AI to solve, or was a presented problem statement not truly yours?

AI is not just a technology project; it's a fundamental business and cultural transformation. It requires a complete re-evaluation of your entire organization.

#AIStrategy #Leadership #DigitalTransformation #BusinessGrowth #InnovationContact Thomas at: [email protected]

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Most boards are still funding AI the expensive way, and an inflection point has just arrived.

In this episode I set out what changed in the summer of 2026, why open-weight models are closing the gap with the closed frontier models, and what that means for a chief executive rather than for an engineer. When models run inside your own business rather than through someone else's API, three things change at once: the cost of every query, your visibility of what is actually being used, and your position on the regulation that already applies to AI touching decisions about people.

I also make an argument that will be unpopular with consultants. AI has not disappointed anyone. Strategy has. Most companies bought AI as a project, ran it as a hobby, and never appointed anyone to own the whole picture. If your deployment has underdelivered against its budget, that is not a failure of the technology and it is not your failure either. You were badly advised.

What this episode is for: knowing enough to make the decisions that are coming. Where to allocate funds, what to build inside the business, which vendor relationships to keep, and what to ask your own people before the board asks you.

Thomas Anglero is a Strategic AI Advisor and the author of Intro to Artificial Intelligence, with over 450 keynotes delivered across 30 countries. He works with boards and executive teams on AI strategy and governance.

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The EU AI Act changed on 27 July 2026. Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 is now in force, and almost every summary of it used the same word: delay.

One part of the AI Act moved and one part did not, and the difference is where the risk now sits. The high-risk obligations covering AI used in recruitment, performance management, credit scoring and education have shifted to December 2027 for Annex III systems and August 2028 for AI embedded in regulated products. The transparency obligations, the rules requiring people to be told when they are dealing with a machine, still arrive on 2 August 2026. The prohibitions that have applied since February 2025 were not touched at all, and they carry the highest penalty tier in the regulation.

In this episode of Clarity at the Top I go through what actually changed, why December 2027 is a budget question rather than a compliance date, and why the Norwegian position is the least understood part of the file. The AI Act is not law in Norway yet. It waits on EEA incorporation and the KI-loven has slipped, which some leaders will read as breathing room and should not.

The question underneath all of it is not legal. It is whether anyone in your company can say which AI systems are running, which of them touch a decision about a person, and who owns each one by name. Most leadership teams cannot, and it is not carelessness. Nobody was ever given the job.

Thomas Anglero is a Strategic AI Advisor and keynote speaker who founded the IBM Watson AI Lab for Cancer at Oslo Cancer Cluster and was Cognizant's Nordic CTO.

Leadership is very lonely. Everyone expects you to have the answer, to be available, and to work harder than them, but no one's taking care of you. No one's asking you anything about what you need, about your day, about your family, or about your lack of time with your family.

How do you change this? How did you get there? The answer lies in prioritising you, just you: no phone, no PC, no internet, just you, the trees, some grass, and the sounds of nature. Time for you to find you.