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Leading in the Era of Human and AI Intelligence
The Intelligent Leader Book by Marc A. Rémond
We have been here before
In 2001, the internet rewired how commerce, communication, and competition worked. The executives who treated it as a website project did not survive.
Between 2010 and 2015, software became a service, and the companies that managed the transition as a pricing change rather than an operating change lost their market.
In his book titled "Subscribed", Tien Tzuo named the shift in 2018, after the market had already decided.
The AI era is doing the same thing to organisations now. Faster. With greater scope. And it is irreversible.
This business book is for the C-suite leaders and professionals who built their careers across both of those transitions and now face the most structurally significant one of their professional lives.
EVOLVE-OR-DIE.AI is the field manual for leading when human and artificial intelligence operate as a system.
The Argument
The Argument
Intelligence in the modern enterprise is now plural, distributed, and hybrid.
It comes from people, systems, data, culture, and market signals at the same time.
Most leaders respond to this by reorganising. New reporting lines. New committees. A redrawn org chart. It does not work, because the silos were never the problem. The absence of an operating system was.
The Intelligent Leader does not break silos by reorganising the org chart. They break silos by building the operating system, the Intelligent Workplace, that gives AI the architecture it needs to connect intelligence across every function simultaneously.
That is the central claim of this book. It is not a theory. It is a demonstration.
The Leadership Intelligence Stack
The Leadership Intelligence Stack
The book builds one framework, layer by layer. Six intelligences every leader must hold and orchestrate at once in the AI era.
Human Intelligence
Human Intelligence
Judgment, empathy, ethics, lived experience. The irreplaceable layer AI amplifies but cannot replace.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
Working with and governing AI systems, including the geopolitical reality of operating across US-led and China-led ecosystems.
Orchestration Intelligence
Orchestration Intelligence
Designing and governing mixed teams of humans and AI agents. The new leadership discipline.
Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence
Financial performance and commercial dynamics, read at the speed AI now moves them.
Portfolio Intelligence
Portfolio Intelligence
Products, services, competitive position. What to build, buy, bundle, or kill.
Cultural Intelligence
Cultural Intelligence
Operating across cultures, geographies, and ownership structures. The APAC lens, treated as a credential rather than a footnote.
These are not new skills. What is new is the requirement to hold and deploy all six at once, in an environment where AI is working on the same information you are, faster and broader, but without the judgment, ethics, and accountability that only you can bring.
What Makes This Book Different
What Makes This Book Different
Written from Singapore based on global perspectives. Business leaders navigate both the US-led and the China-led AI ecosystems at once.
That is a structural advantage no Western leadership programme can teach with credibility. This book is written from inside it.
The argument is not observed from a distance. It is drawn from more than 25 years of leadership experience across European and American technology companies, through the disruptions that eliminated entire categories of incumbent.
Lived, not hypothetical. The author runs two authority brands, seven content pipelines, an advisory practice, and a framework programme.
Alone. Using Artificial Intelligence.
"I have built it at the scale of one. The principles do not change at the scale of a thousand."
The Test This Book Is Written To
The Test This Book Is Written To
Would a C-suite leader or business executive, reading this on a flight to Hong Kong or Bangalore, find something that changes how they think about their job tomorrow morning? Every chapter is written to pass it.
Inside the Book
Inside the Book
Three parts. Twenty chapters.
Part One: The Landscape.
What the AI era is actually doing to organisations. Why this disruption is structurally different from web and SaaS. What the leader who will not survive this transition looks like.
Part Two: The Leadership Intelligence Stack.
The six intelligences, built one chapter at a time, resolving into the question they raise: if every leader must hold all six, who owns the system that lets them?
Part Three: Application.
The stack applied to the specific roles of the C-suite. The CEO, the CMO, the CHRO, the CFO, the CIO, the COO, and the orchestration that connects them.
About the Author
About the Author
Marc A. Rémond is the founder of Strategic Pathways, a B2B technology advisory firm operating across Asia Pacific markets and beyond.
He has spent more than 25 years in senior enterprise technology leadership across American and European Technology companies, through the web, SaaS, and AI transitions.
EVOLVE-OR-DIE.AI is the successor to two books that defined their eras:
E-Volve-or-Die.com for the web, and Subscribed for SaaS.
This one is for the era of intelligence.
Marc writes from Singapore, the place he now calls home.
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