World Executive Forum

The demos look slick, the promises even slicker. In slides and keynotes, agentic assistants plan, click, and ship your work while you sip coffee. Promoters like McKinsey call it the agentic AI advantage. Then you put these systems on real client work and the wheels come off. The newest empirical benchmark from researchers at the Center...

When it comes to business growth, companies with Advisory Boards consistently deliver stronger sales, productivity, and profitability than those without. Governance specialist and author Anthony Moss reveals why this surprising performance uplift occurs, from sharper decision-making and accountability to new thinking and expanded networks. The following extract explores the evidence...

I’ve spent most of my life being told to get my head out of the clouds. Teachers said it. Bosses implied it. Even my own inner critic has blurted it out: “Focus, Gavin. Stop drifting. Grow up.” But I believe the world could do with a few more heads in...

“I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.” -Henry David Thoreau Consider this: Effective leadership is always a process, never a product. CEOs who rest on their laurels, their prior accomplishments, outdated networks, or their college degrees are seldom efficient and often stagnating (as is their...

Executive Time is the Ultimate Currency: Every year, thousands of C-suite leaders, investors, and elite professionals try to win precious minutes on a Fortune CEO’s schedule. Most fail. The modern meeting request isn’t a simple email—it’s a strategic asset, competing for the world’s most sought-after attention. In 2025, the difference...

We are nearing the end of the year, which means you may have a bittersweet feeling when you look at your investment portfolio. Sweet, because it has been yet another strong year in the stock market with the S&P 500 up roughly 16% year-to-date. Bitter, for the same reason, Uncle...

Exponential technologies will wipe out the art of writing, blogs and papers, and the entire journalism profession, as we will have AI agents, somewhere in the physical and digital realm, catering ultra-personalized stories to us, according to our interests, story, background and economic interests. The tech skeptics always say that...

Each autumn, thousands of investors in the Baron Capital fund file into one of the most iconic venues in America, New York City’s Lincoln Center, home to the Metropolitan Opera House. In its typical life, the space hosts Puccini and Bizet. But once a year, it becomes something else entirely:...

In the fall and winter of 2025, a wave of global layoffs driven by artificial intelligence (AI) quietly intensified. According to data from Challenger, Gray & Christmas, by September 2025, nearly 950,000 job cuts had been announced in the United States, marking the highest figure since the COVID-19 pandemic.   What...

While we hear much about men’s fitness, many male leaders are unaware of the requirement to understand and build emotional fitness. This is the capacity for a man to build the necessary skills to navigate the challenges that life will throw, such as those found in relationships, parenting, extended family,...