# LeaderbookAI As AI accelerates and the margin for error shrinks, we interrogate ideas with research and real stories — building a community of adaptable leaders who are harder to outcompete. Page: Feed: --- ## [59%: The PE AI Adoption Number That Exposes the Real Risk in Revenue Tech](https://leaderbookai.substack.com/p/59-the-pe-ai-adoption-number-that) _2026-07-20 · LeaderbookAI_ An executive analysis of AI adoption, trust, and revenue orchestration in private equity-backed sales organizations ## [20%: Global Employee Engagement Just Hit a Five-Year Low. One CEO Cut His Own Pay 50% Instead of Firing Anyone — Here’s What the Data Says He Got Right](https://leaderbookai.substack.com/p/20-global-employee-engagement-just) _2026-07-13 · LeaderbookAI_ An executive analysis of trust, transformation, and why culture is the leading indicator boardrooms still underprice ## [The CFO Is No Longer Just a Numbers Person — And the Data Proves It](https://leaderbookai.substack.com/p/the-cfo-is-no-longer-just-a-numbers) _2026-06-22 · LeaderbookAI_ An executive analysis of the CFO’s transformation from financial gatekeeper to human-centered strategic leader ## [From Jockey to Investor: How the Smartest Operator-Turned-Capital-Allocators Are Reshaping Sports Tech](https://leaderbookai.substack.com/p/from-jockey-to-investor-how-the-smartest) _2026-06-15 · LeaderbookAI_ An executive analysis of the founder-to-investor journey, sports tech capital flows, and what it means for C-suite leaders in 2025 ## [$48 Billion and Climbing: Why Deep Tech Is Eating Venture Capital — and What It Means for Your Portfolio](https://leaderbookai.substack.com/p/48-billion-and-climbing-why-deep) _2026-06-01 · LeaderbookAI_ An executive analysis of deep tech’s emergence as the dominant capital-allocation story of 2026 ## [The $11B Agentic AI Market: 88% of Pilots Stall. The 12% That Don't Share One Discipline.](https://leaderbookai.substack.com/p/the-11b-agentic-ai-market-88-of-pilots) _2026-05-27 · LeaderbookAI_ Inside the listening practice that separates production AI agents from pilot purgatory and what enterprise leaders can learn from how Tom Braun rebuilt the LA Galaxy. ## [The Avidity Economy: Why Customer Repeat Behavior — Not Acquisition — Is the Defining Operating Metric of 2026](https://leaderbookai.substack.com/p/the-avidity-economy-why-customer) _2026-05-19 · LeaderbookAI_ An executive analysis of retention economics, the rising cost of acquisition, and what one MLS club's worst-to-champions playbook reveals about portfolio company unit economics ## [How Private Equity is Rewriting Economics - from 5x to 15x](https://leaderbookai.substack.com/p/from-5-to-15-how-private-equity-is) _2026-05-11 · LeaderbookAI_ An executive analysis of the PE roll-up wave reassembling accounting, law, and consulting — and what it means for portfolio operators. ## [The Loyalty Trap: The Conversation CEOs Aren’t Having — and What It’s Costing Them](https://leaderbookai.substack.com/p/the-loyalty-trap-the-conversation) _2026-05-04 · LeaderbookAI_ An executive analysis of why high-tenure leaders stay too long, what it actually destroys, and the playbook the CEOs who get it right are running. ## [Get started with Turso (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/46YJSv8u2DuY) _2026-05-04 · **Sponsored**_ Create your Turso account to access the app. ## [Research says Only 12% of Workforces Are Truly Ready - Where's the Gap?](https://leaderbookai.substack.com/p/the-ai-proof-gap-only-12-of-workforces) _2026-04-27 · LeaderbookAI_ An executive analysis of the leadership execution gap threatening $344 billion in private market AI investments