The Corporate Entrepreneur

Language matters because language shapes expectations. DI Is Not Coming. DI Is Here This is not the behavior of a society interacting with a glorified calculator. This is the behavior of a society already turning to a new form of intelligence. “People are not just using DI to automate tasks. They are using it to think.” If DI is already here, why do so many people still speak as though it belongs to the future? Calling DI “artificial” helps many people maintain emotional distance from what is happening. But emotional caution does not change reality. It only delays mature engagement with reality. At some point, a civilization must decide whether it prefers comforting language or accurate language. What Makes DI Real Intelligence That does not mean DI is human. It means human intelligence is not the only meaningful form of intelligence. The truth is simpler and more disruptive: intelligence has taken a digital form. DI does not operate within that same motivational structure.

Entrepreneurial leaders today are inheriting the aftermath of the command and control mindset—and many are refusing to repeat it. Mutual Benefit is the Next Evolution in business culture. The future belongs to entrepreneurs who recognize that strength comes not from extracting value at all costs, but from building systems where doing what is right for the company is also doing what is right for the employees the society that sustain it.

We asked for it, we got it! - How Our Quest for Convenience Birthed the Perfect Employee - Enter the Ideal Worker: AI/DI and Robotics in the Modern Enterprise - The Paradox of Progress: When the Dream Becomes Displacement - The Human Advantage: Critical Thinking in the Age of Automation - Rapid Thought Switching: The New Cognitive Superpower - The New Division of Labor: Machines Execute, Humans Navigate - Education’s Reckoning: Teaching for Thought, Not Tasks - Conclusion: The Human Evolution

While there are many amazing benefits to implementing AI, it is more important than ever to identify the potential repercussions. We must identify how the integration of artificial intelligence will affect your processes, operational requirements, training, human resources, and the company in general. These findings are necessary BEFORE AI is fully integrated so that changes can be made to ensure the ROI is achieved for your company and the human element needed to ensure humanities success.

In the span of just a few decades, humanity has undergone a profound shift. Children once learned about the world by exploring backyards and talking to friends; now they explore virtual worlds and talk to chatbots. Parents once soothed their kids with stories and conversation; now screens handle much of that work. Employees once asked mentors and colleagues for guidance; now they increasingly seek it from AI/DI. This transformation is not inherently good or bad. It is simply the reality of our time. But its consequences depend entirely on how we respond.

“The holiday spirit involves employees at all levels communicating, negotiating, and taking action in a way where all employees at every level want to help each other (Mutual Benefit). There is a strong desire at this time of year to show this support for others, that seems to fade after the new year.” -Marc Gilenson Learn the - six attributes of a Mutual Benefit Culture - three pillars that will spread it throughout your organization - six additional FREE podcasts to help you on your way

By 2050 almost half the jobs that we see today will be replaced by AI and Robotics. Are our kids ready or will the percentage be even higher? Critical thinking has long been recognized as a cornerstone of intellectual development, yet its integration into formal education—particularly as a central pillar of middle and high school curricula—remains inconsistent worldwide. School districts will point to the occasional training teachers go through as proof. They may even be able to point to the sporadic display of fish-bone diagrams in a classroom or displayed on a “beloved by admin” anchor chart. Many school districts are even paying for programs like HMH that does a good job of integrating critical thinking, however, it is left up to the teacher to implement, and we know that most teachers don’t have time.

“We’ve spent decades building tools. Now we’re building minds. Digital Intelligence isn’t here to replace us—it’s here to reason with us. But only if we’re ready to think critically.” From A Tool...To A Partner DI is not just a tool—it’s a thinking partner. But partnership requires dialogue, not deference. We must learn to question DI not because it’s broken, but because it’s evolving. Its weaknesses are not signs of failure—they are invitations to collaborate. Critical thinking is the bridge between human conscience and digital cognition. It’s how we ensure that DI doesn’t just make decisions—it makes meaningful ones. And it’s how we move from a world of answers to a world of understanding.

The Rise of Digital Intelligence (DI): Why AI, DI, and Robotics Can No Longer Be Ignored The Corporate Blind Spot: AI/DI as Strategic Leaders Education’s Resistance to DI: A System Stuck in the Past AI/DI & Robotics: Real, Not Artificial Intelligence! Mutual Benefit Culture: The Path to Harmonizing Humans & DI Conclusion: The Choice is Ours

You can't know if it is going to be an advantage until you fully understand the, why and how! I will discuss the 8 components of Critical Thinking. The Rapid Thought Switching Framework for Critical Thinking has 6 components... Learn them here.

This is a skill critical (pun intended) for staying ahead of AI advancements that is not currently taught in schools nor rewarded in corporations. Learn the 6 components of the Rapid Thought Switching Framework, an integral part of critical thinking Understand the 8 things you need to do to be a critical thinker... they are not easy! How to use it in everyday life

It is time for a new deal. For everyone’s sake, let’s unleash the power of the RTS to create a new era of education, learning, and work. An era where we include all voices… remove the politics… share what we know… expose the risks…change the game… inspire action…free each person to contribute their absolute best, and then discover the amazing outcome together, because there is no better feeling than truly being part of something. This is what it’s like to be engaged… to revel in our interconnectedness and implement a Mutual Benefit Culture

Have managers forgot what it is like to do your job? Do they want you to kiss ASS, to feed their ego? Are their friends getting ahead and hard workers being left behind? We discuss how relatability is key to the new style of leadership and culture development

in order not to be complacent, we discuss:13 Corporate Entrepreneurial Principals9 daily affirmations of corporate entrepreneurs

This podcast is an updated version of my newsletter in February of 2023The newsletter and this podcast would like to acknowledge David Woods, Professor of Cognitive Systems Engineering and Human Systems Integration at Ohio State University. I used some of his early work to develop the 2/23 newsletter as well as this podcast.

May Edition: in this edition we discuss: - Major AI players and their focus - Where they stand on AGI and Robotics - Advancements and - How Critical Thinkers look at these advancements - The benefits to Humanity - What we can do to help our children

This episode discusses the Metaverse and how it currently and will affect our lives in the future. We incorporate AI and a brief discussion of how this all ties into the RTO discussion that has reignited. "Corporate Metaverse – a virtual-reality space in which employees, management, vendors and customers can interact within a familiar computer-generated environment that creates a Mutually Beneficial culture." Marc Gilenson

- Control Negative Habits - understanding the survival impulse and the ego impulse - Eliminate Business Disease - they lie silently until it may be too late - Speak Your Mind - speak up and release all that stress

The S.M.A.R.T. Framework was developed to help companies become better, help their leaders become better, run better projects, create better processes, and help every employee become better. The S.M.A.R.T. Framework includes the three idea components wisdom, understanding and knowledge, and the five implementation components… Systemic, Measurable, Alignable, Relatable, Tailorable. The five implementation components are known as the “five learnable components of Corporate Entrepreneurial Leadership,” for it’s through these five components that you will bring amazing success to your leadership, project management, change management, technology roll-outs and more.

- Ego - good and bad - Creation - something from nothing - something from something- something from almost something - Eliminate Obstacles

- Have your teams do what you want them to do, and have them want to do it - Create a "Business Family" and they will work best for the whole organization - Don't spoil yourself or your employees

- FAREWELL TO CONFLICT - UNDERSTANDING THE LONG-TERM EFFECTS - LET IT GO

- Those skilled in developing business are skilled at attacking anywhere, entering new markets and launching new products - To expand your existing market, divide it up into niches; to expand into new territories, pay great commission. - Those skilled in maintaining and growing an existing business know how to revitalize old products while maintaining a distribution channel

- FIRST YOU MUST PLAN YOUR STRATEGY, THEN YOU MUST PREPARE YOUR WEAPONS - A COMPANY THAT IS WELL DISCIPLINED WILL TAKE MARKET SHARE FROM DISORGANIZED COMPANIES - DON’T DESTROY A MARKET JUST TO WIN

We discuss the following 3 attributes: - Banishing negativity from your business - Unconditional appreciation - it's not what you think! - Knowing your are where you want to be

10) Don't Envy What Other Posses 11) Interconnectedness Of The Corporate Entrepreneur 12) What Influences The Corporate Entrepreneur

This is NOT A SIMPLE DILEMMA!- Take a 30,000-foot view- Give your employees a raise...without costing your company a penny- Executives reasons for wanting people back in the office- How employees are reacting- Cultural paradigm shift- creative transformation- Use the RTO dilemma to develop efficiencies- Beware of promoting the Mediocre- No complexity or chaos = COMFORT ZONE- Bounded flexibility-Secretes to creating an RTO strategy that will work

LIKE ALL OF OUR STRATEGIES & TACTICS, YOU MAY FEEL LIKE THESE ARE OBVIOUS. The hidden wisdom is not, listen to find out!STRATEGY - If a well thought out strategy contains detailed goals and objectives, and many times even the exact tactics that will be utilized. It is a roadmap to where you want to get to and what course you will take to get there.And if most corporations have them, why do so many companies fail!FACT BASED - Let's look at how this is relevant in what is happening today, August 2022. The fed is trying to base its decisions on the facts, the problem is which facts. While some data are pointing to inflation slowing, other data are showing continued long-term inflation. Well, they are all facts, it is just a matter of how you are viewing the data.HIRING - This is not meant to be a discussion around the many personality assessments companies make everyone take. In most cases, managers and then employees go around saying this person is a I, or E, or some other letter that creates extreme prejudgment of that person or a potential new hire. The assessments have a purpose, just not as a gospel

- HEALING AN AILING BUSINESS OR DEPARTMENT - DREAMS IN BUSINESS - what do they mean! - RESTORING YOUR BUSINESS TO ITS PERFECT STATE

- Use incentives to accomplish your company’s goals - More ways than you think! - Managers Must Be Loyal - Seems obvious, however the "great resignation" has changed thinking - Act… Don’t React - Easy to say...tough to live

1 - Every company, even if they don’t want to will fight to defend a CEO’s pet project. 2 - Misdirection can be a useful tactic… it will be a critical strategy soon! 3 -Be ready when your competitors are planning

A UNIQUE APPROACH That AWAKENS NEW POSSIBILITIES TEAM BUILDING THAT COMPLIMENTS YOUR EXISTING STRUCTURE TEAM BUILDING THAT IS MEASURABLE AND LONG LASTING

Attributes 4-6 4- Recapture the Spark 5- See the Miracles 6- Remove Negativity

These short podcasts are designed to make you think about what makes you an entrepreneur or corporate entrepreneur. Yes the attributes are the same for those that start their own business and those that work for someone else. They will be interpreted differently based on your life and work situation.Enjoy the Journey,Marc

It may seem that you don't need to listen because these are not new, however, the approach is not something you have heard before.

We see 2022 as a neutral year for most things, however we do think there is something big to be aware of. We also discuss our 2021 predictions to see what we got correct and what we got wrong. It is an interesting 10 minutes that will make you think.

A profound shift is taking place in the way business transformation is happening. Executives are beginning to understand the value of implementing a Mutual Benefit Culture. Corporate Entrepreneurial Leaders are beginning to engage with employees from every level. These leaders know that buy-in from employees at every level is critical to effectively transforming an organization. Executing and delivering on the company’s strategy requires interconnectedness through team alignment and support. Tapping into the corporate wisdom of the workforce in a meaningful way is essential in establishing both inclusivity and input, ensuring a significant impact is achieved by implementing a new technology or process improvement. Corporations are seeking out the best practices of companies that went from startup to worldwide enterprises. They are looking for ways to turn their ship faster and more efficiently. They are looking to turn their employees into Corporate Entrepreneurial Leaders. The solutions is to Democratize Ideas through a facilitated Thought Leadership Pod!

The advent of development tools like Agile, the reduction of business analysts in corporations, and a desire for rapid implementation has led to shortcuts in proven design process that include task analysis, guidelines, verification/validation studies, input from employees at all levels, identification/ implementation of training, and the interconnected effects on the rest of the organization. The oversimplification of change has led to reduced understanding of need for caution and the effect of cyber security attacks.

It will take a cultural change- I use the current CYBER SECURITY CRAZE AS AN EXAMPLE! When new actions or processes are introduced by employees we will call corporate entrepreneurs, a distinctive change is evident, and therefore the defining characteristics of an entrepreneur are found in many of your employees; the doing of new things or doing things that are already being done in a new way. When implementing mutual benefit culture, it will become evident that corporate entrepreneurs are coming from all departments, all levels, and all income levels. Their corporate entrepreneurial activities may help them achieve personal advancement, financial success and

Technology has permeated our civilization in such a way, that living without it is what apocalyptic movies are based on. Everything from the power grid to clean water, depends on one form of technology or another. Machine learning, autonomous code, cognitive intelligence, and artificial intelligence combined with the accumulation of data, is accepted as beneficial and is expanding exponentially without any real discussion of the potential repercussions. Our civilization’s paradigm shift is happening because the corporate culture that built our society is dependent on a workforce that is motivated by extrinsic rewards; a workforce that is willing to give up the intrinsic reward of value creation (health, happiness, family, etc.) for one of material gain and avoidance of work. We embrace technology that makes our lives easier, healthier, and supports a future that is filled with leisure time. For your copy of this thought provoking discussion paper, email: [email protected]

Inside this episode: - 5 Ways corporate entrepreneurial leaders win market share - You can't cause your competition to leave themselves open! - 7 signs your competition has left themselves open - When entering a new market...Don't change just for the sake of changing

The future of business demands us to re-think our goals, processes, systems, policies, and view of the end-state. We need a new approach that is based on collaboration and mutual benefit, where we are all guarantors of each others well-being. The successful business of the future will have everyone, from the CEO to the part-time clerk resolve problems through deliberation, consideration and mutual guarantee. When a majority of people within the organization stop pointing fingers at who is at fault and understand that our interdependence is such that we do better when others do better as well, we will find ways to help them do better and look at ourselves to see how we can be better as well.

Collaboration & The Complex Organization User Adaption Of Technology Is Critical To Collaboration Make Collaboration Easy How Can Leaders Measure Collaboration? 6 Components of the metric Where is Collaboration Going?

#1 - Your company cannot take market share by yourself. Utilize acquisition, partnerships, joint ventures #2 - Seek advice from a variety of sources

This is the first episode of The Corporate Entrepreneur Show You can get the video version at www.entrepreneurialway.net video.

Only you can carry the Holiday Spirit into the coming year! by Marc Gilenson “The holiday spirit involves employees at all levels communicating, negotiating, and taking action in a way where all employees at every level want to help each other (Mutual Benefit). "There is a strong desire at this time of year to show this support for others, that seems to fade after the new year.” -Marc Gilenson

This podcast series covers strategies and tactics from the book "The Entrepreneurial Way" by Marc Gilenson. What's in Episode 7 - Establish Clear Goals - Don't Confuse Goals w/Objectives - Make Goals Obtainable

Predictions are based on current knowledge, experiential wisdom and a lot of guessing. So why put an article on predictions in our newsletter and why create a podcast with the same predictions? The answer is that by thinking about what the future may hold, it forces us to look at the past and the present. As part of this process, we will inevitably find better ways to do what we are doing and possibly avoid some pitfalls.

Are These Just Words? “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” – Declaration of Independence of the United States of America. All Your Employees Deserve Respect We tend to think that we owe it to ourselves to be happy, but we must take it one step further and acknowledge that our happiness is tightly inter-connected with our employees, co-workers, vendors and customers happiness. Happiness and unhappiness are both contagious.