CXOTalk Why Your AI Strategy Is Failing: Fortune 500 CEO Advisor Explains | CXOTalk #900
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Nov 17, 2025 
Sangeet Paul Choudary, an advisor to over 40 Fortune 500 CEOs and author of *Reshuffle*, discusses the transformative power of AI beyond mere automation. He argues that AI should be viewed as coordination infrastructure that reimagines business models. The shipping container analogy illustrates AI's impact on industrial assumptions. Sangeet emphasizes the importance of strategic foresight in navigating the evolving job landscape and warns against outdated automation narratives. Companies must rethink capabilities and focus on long-term systemic redesign to remain relevant.
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Strategy Is About Playing Field, Not Tasks
- AI's main impact is reorganizing economic activity, not just automating tasks.
- Strategy must ask where to play and how to win in an AI-altered playing field.
Shipping Container Parable
- The shipping container first automated port tasks, then enabled global supply chains and new manufacturing models.
- Second-order effects created far more value than the initial automation did.
Use Foresight And Iterative Bets
- Use short-term foresight (e.g., one year) to map the future playing field and choose where to compete.
- Make bets, execute, and iteratively update your plan as models and reality change.
