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In an era of constant disruption, organizations that fail to adapt and innovate risk losing their competitive advantage. Research  shows that even the most successful firms struggle to stay on top between eras of disruptive shifts: only half of the world’s 100 most valuable firms remained in the top 100 by the end of the next decade. The pace of this drop off has only accelerated.  How do companies stay competitive? In the history of innovative companies, those that sustain o

Tala recently posted a recap of her 2025 leadership lessons and inspired me to reflect on my own.   The lessons below are   internal . They’re the shifts, realizations, and practices that shaped   how I lead myself   this year and informed how I help other leaders and CEOs show up.   January - Reconnecting with Curiosity and Voicing Intent January was spent exploring what my 2025 word of the year,   laughter and longing , truly meant. It showed up as an invitation to vitality

After seven weeks of exploring systems thinking through the lens of leadership, culture, and transformation, the 2025 Cosmic Conference comes full circle with a powerful closing conversation. Professor José Santos, Affiliated Professor of Practice in Global Management at INSEAD, joins Marilyn Zakhour to challenge and deepen the conference’s central idea: Is the system really the strategy? Together, they explore how leaders can move from managing parts to understanding the who

Culture is the system that makes everything else work. In this lively conversation, Marilyn Zakhour and Tala Ode from Cosmic Centaurs unpack how culture shows up not in slogans or posters, but in the invisible systems that shape how organizations operate: how decisions are made, how meetings run, how feedback flows, and how people feel when they show up to work. Using the Omnichannel Organization™ framework , they explore how leaders can design culture through structure, proc