What skills will your business actually need in an AI world, and which tempting opportunities should you ignore?
In this episode, Richard speaks with Tim Smeaton, CEO and co-founder of Kubrick Group, about the CEO evolution required when data, AI and cloud technology move faster than most organisations can absorb.
Tim's story is not a generic AI conversation. It is about turning a structural bottleneck into a business model. Kubrick did not simply hire scarce AI talent. It built the missing bridge between education and enterprise demand. For CEOs scaling businesses, the lesson is strategic focus: the biggest opportunity is not always the one with the largest market, but the one your organisation can execute with a tight enough arrowhead.
You'll learn:
- Why Tim recommends ignoring amazing opportunities
- How to spot a structural skills bottleneck and build around it
- Why AI strategy depends on the human system around experimentation, training and governance
- How to assess opportunities by execution capacity, not just market size
- Why CEO leadership in an AI world requires sharper judgement, not just more technology spend
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