
Chief Digital Evangelist @Salesforce | Bestselling Books: BOUNDLESS 2023, AUTONOMOUS 2025 | Columnist: @ZDNet | Podcast: @DisrupTVShow
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AUTONOMOUS is about how organizations will adopt AI-first strategies and integrate digital labor, specifically AI agents, into their operations.
AI agents will revolutionize efficiency by eliminating waste, minimizing bottlenecks, and providing intelligence, speed, and scale. This will significantly augment human capabilities, allowing us to achieve more than ever before.
In the age of Agentic AI you are either building an autonomous business or you are part of dying one.
AUTONOMOUS represents my most important work.
I appreciate your support of our work.
BOUNDLESS is an Amazon #1 New Release in Business Management.
I hope you consider reading our new book and providing us feedback.
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Do not use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe, to create, to learn, to think and to grow.
—Professor Richard Feynman
"People find these numbers inconceivable, and I do too"
TOP 10 STRATEGIC TECH TRENDS AND PREDICTIONS 2027-2031, GARTNER
1 Large quantitative models
2 Speech reasoning models
3 World models
4 AI context platforms
5 AI coding agent harness
6 AI agent identity
7 Autonomous exposure remediation
8 SovereignTech
9 Disposable applications
10 Wetware as a service
Predictions for 2027-2031:
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1. By 2030, LQMs will replace LLMs in 25% of strategic forecasting and operational modeling tasks across major enterprise functions.
2. By 2030, over 70% of enterprise voice interactions will be handled autonomously by speech models, up from less than 10% in 2026.
3. By 2030, 40% of robotics applications will incorporate world models to drive optimal decisions in adaptive environments, compared with less than 1% in 2025.
4. By 2027, organizations that prioritize semantics in AI-ready data will increase agentic AI accuracy by up to 80% and reduce costs by up to 60%.
5. By late 2026, autonomous coding agents will generate 20% of all public commits, making closed-loop harnesses mandatory to prevent critical software delivery quality failures.
6. By 2028, 25% of enterprise security breaches will trace back to AI agent abuse due to unmanaged machine privileges and legacy credential practices. If organizations don’t resolve
these identity challenges, over half of their enterprise AI initiatives will halt entirely.
7. By 2031, organizations deploying autonomous exposure remediation will reduce their average vulnerability containment window from weeks to within 48 hours.
8. By 2030, over 75% of non-U.S.-based organizations will adopt digital sovereignty strategies, shifting critical workloads to reduce geopolitical and vendor lock-in risks.
9. By 2030, widespread SaaS fatigue and AI-driven software abundance will force leading organizations to ensure 80% of new applications are disposable and easy to replace.
10. By 2030, 25% of enterprise organizations prioritizing specialized low-power AI will deploy biological
computing to bypass traditional silicon limits.
Gartner’s top 10 strategic technology trends for 2027 is a strong reminder for all business leaders: the future of business is autonomous.
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TOP DISRUPTORS OF 2026
Gartner predicts that by 2028, in industrial environments, physical AI will automate up to 50% of manual tasks that current technologies cannot achieve.
Do not use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe, to create, to learn, to think and to grow.
—Professor Richard Feynman
"People find these numbers inconceivable, and I do too"
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“The only thing an old man can tell a young man is that it goes fast, real fast, and if you’re not careful it’s too late.
Of course, the young man will never understand this truth.”
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Never quit something with great long-term potential just because you can’t deal with the stress of the moment.
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Tom Brady: “You need coaches that push you outside your comfort zone because that’s how you grow and that’s how you develop self confidence and self esteem. They push you to deal with failure.”
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Do not take yourself too seriously. Laugh loudly.
Stay optimistic, accept rejection, learn from mistakes, work hard, forgive first, show up on time, fight against sense of entitlement, hold doors open a bit longer, and travel light without carrying resentment or bitterness.
Successful people surround themselves by supportive truth tellers — a masterclass by @JeffBezos on the importance of seeking the truth
“The only thing an old man can tell a young man is that it goes fast, real fast, and if you’re not careful it’s too late.
Of course, the young man will never understand this truth.”







