{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Parallel Entrepreneur with Mark Cleveland","title":"Why Today’s Leadership Playbook Breaks in the Age of AI","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1058,"description":"The leadership playbooks that built today’s successful organizations were designed for a different world.In this episode of The Parallel Entrepreneur – Innovation Series, hosts Mark Cleveland and Johnny Anderson sit down with Amalia Goodwin, Global Managing Director of Adaptive Organizations at Slalom, to confront a reality most executives quietly avoid:Incremental change is no longer safe. It’s organizational suicide.Amalia works with C-suite leaders and boards who understand that AI transformation isn’t about tools, it’s about redesigning how organizations sense, decide, and evolve at scale. This conversation goes far beyond technology and into the deeper work of leadership courage, organizational design, and the role companies play as architects of society’s future.We explore what it actually means to build an adaptive organization, one capable of continuous reinvention rather than reactive survival.In this episode, we discuss:- Why AI transformation fails without leadership courage- The danger of applying yesterday’s playbooks to tomorrow’s problems- What “innovation metabolism” really means inside organizations- How leaders can balance quarterly performance with long-term survival- Why organizations must see themselves as civic architects, not just profit engines- Designing decision-making systems that can keep pace with exponential change- The overlooked societal impact of AI governance and organizational choicesAmalia brings insights shaped by 25+ years and 100+ global transformations, blending strategic clarity with moral responsibility. This is a conversation for leaders who know the future isn’t something you react to, it’s something you design.Chapters: 00:00:00 “Courage feels a lot like fear when you’re in it.” (Cold open) 00:00:47 Episode introduction + why this conversation matters 00:01:07 The systems that made you successful won’t survive the AI age 00:01:16 Why incremental change is actually dangerous right now 00:01:37 Amalia on helping...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/GFjjD1lfhpKjrRFvBYjircTm7KmxUyXiCMmVziPGajg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zMTUw/ODg2ZjMyN2I5YjZj/ODFlMDU2MGI2ZTA4/Zjc2My5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}