Greg Satell
@gregsatell.bsky.social
Bestselling Author of CASCADES & MAPPING INNOVATION | International Keynote Speaker | Transformation Expert and Advisor | Wharton Lecturer |over 50 articles in Harvard Business Review
Why Silicon Valley’s Obsession With Logic Is Breaking the World digitaltonto.com/2025/why-sil...
Why Silicon Valley’s Obsession With Logic Is Breaking the World | Digital Tonto
In Careless People, former Meta executive Sarah Wynn-Williams describes the Silicon Valley executives she worked with as so wealthy and powerful that they had grown out of touch with many of the world...
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December 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Why Silicon Valley’s Obsession With Logic Is Breaking the World digitaltonto.com/2025/why-sil...
3 Stubborn Change Management Beliefs That Consistently Sabotage Genuine Transformation digitaltonto.com/2025/3-stubb...
3 Stubborn Change Management Beliefs That Consistently Sabotage Genuine Transformation | Digital Tonto
People become successful managers by adopting a manager mindset. They treat transformational initiatives as if they were just a scaled-up sales process. They focus on persuasion to try and build conse...
digitaltonto.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
3 Stubborn Change Management Beliefs That Consistently Sabotage Genuine Transformation digitaltonto.com/2025/3-stubb...
Good Stories Are Powerful — And They’re Also Traps digitaltonto.com/2025/good-st...
Good Stories Are Powerful — And They’re Also Traps | Digital Tonto
The neuroscientist Antonio Damasio believes we encode experiences in our bodies as somatic markers and that our emotions often alert us to things that our brains aren’t aware of. Another researcher, J...
digitaltonto.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Good Stories Are Powerful — And They’re Also Traps digitaltonto.com/2025/good-st...
The 2025 Digital Tonto Reading List digitaltonto.com/2025/the-202...
The 2025 Digital Tonto Reading List | Digital Tonto
One of the great things about books is that they can take you out of your current context. You can go to a different period of history, explore another industry or even a different planet. That’s one ...
digitaltonto.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The 2025 Digital Tonto Reading List digitaltonto.com/2025/the-202...
How To Design A Keystone Change In 4 (Not So Easy) Steps digitaltonto.com/2025/how-to-...
How To Design A Keystone Change In 4 (Not So Easy) Steps | Digital Tonto
Traditional change management practices focus on communication and training—a holdover from an earlier age, when leaders had more control and the goal was simply to inform and coordinate. Today, howev...
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December 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
How To Design A Keystone Change In 4 (Not So Easy) Steps digitaltonto.com/2025/how-to-...
How To Leverage Cultural Triggers To Engineer A High Performance Organization digitaltonto.com/2025/how-to-...
How To Leverage Cultural Triggers To Engineer A High Performance Organization | Digital Tonto
Lou Gerstner, reflecting on his legendary turnaround at IBM, wrote, “Culture isn’t just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity...
digitaltonto.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
How To Leverage Cultural Triggers To Engineer A High Performance Organization digitaltonto.com/2025/how-to-...
AI Is Booming—And The Bust Could Be Even Bigger digitaltonto.com/2025/ai-is-b...
AI Is Booming—And The Bust Could Be Even Bigger | Digital Tonto
Looking at the AI boom from a historical perspective, the similarities to earlier technological cycles are striking. We see the same excitement, the same calls for government regulators to get out of ...
digitaltonto.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
AI Is Booming—And The Bust Could Be Even Bigger digitaltonto.com/2025/ai-is-b...
The 2025 Digital Tonto Reading List digitaltonto.com/2025/the-202...
The 2025 Digital Tonto Reading List | Digital Tonto
One of the great things about books is that they can take you out of your current context. You can go to a different period of history, explore another industry or even a different planet. That’s one ...
digitaltonto.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The 2025 Digital Tonto Reading List digitaltonto.com/2025/the-202...
3 Stubborn Change Management Beliefs That Consistently Sabotage Genuine Transformation digitaltonto.com/2025/3-stubb...
3 Stubborn Change Management Beliefs That Consistently Sabotage Genuine Transformation | Digital Tonto
People become successful managers by adopting a manager mindset. They treat transformational initiatives as if they were just a scaled-up sales process. They focus on persuasion to try and build conse...
digitaltonto.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
3 Stubborn Change Management Beliefs That Consistently Sabotage Genuine Transformation digitaltonto.com/2025/3-stubb...
Good Stories Are Powerful — And They’re Also Traps digitaltonto.com/2025/good-st...
Good Stories Are Powerful — And They’re Also Traps | Digital Tonto
The neuroscientist Antonio Damasio believes we encode experiences in our bodies as somatic markers and that our emotions often alert us to things that our brains aren’t aware of. Another researcher, J...
digitaltonto.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Good Stories Are Powerful — And They’re Also Traps digitaltonto.com/2025/good-st...
How To Leverage Cultural Triggers To Engineer A High Performance Organization digitaltonto.com/2025/how-to-...
How To Leverage Cultural Triggers To Engineer A High Performance Organization | Digital Tonto
Lou Gerstner, reflecting on his legendary turnaround at IBM, wrote, “Culture isn’t just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity...
digitaltonto.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
How To Leverage Cultural Triggers To Engineer A High Performance Organization digitaltonto.com/2025/how-to-...
I just published Why We Fail to Adapt — And The 3 Hidden Forces Holding You Back medium.com/p/why-we-fai...
Why We Fail to Adapt — And The 3 Hidden Forces Holding You Back
Real change isn’t blocked by bad ideas — but by the hidden systems that make people cling to old ones.
medium.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I just published Why We Fail to Adapt — And The 3 Hidden Forces Holding You Back medium.com/p/why-we-fai...
AI Is Booming—And The Bust Could Be Even Bigger digitaltonto.com/2025/ai-is-b...
AI Is Booming—And The Bust Could Be Even Bigger | Digital Tonto
Looking at the AI boom from a historical perspective, the similarities to earlier technological cycles are striking. We see the same excitement, the same calls for government regulators to get out of ...
digitaltonto.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
AI Is Booming—And The Bust Could Be Even Bigger digitaltonto.com/2025/ai-is-b...
Why The Perfect Is So Often The Enemy Of The Good digitaltonto.com/2025/why-the...
Why The Perfect Is So Often The Enemy Of The Good | Digital Tonto
You don’t have to go far to find someone advising you to “live your perfect life.” From self-help books and TED Talks urging us to “find our why,” to people posting pictures of their spouses and child...
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December 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Why The Perfect Is So Often The Enemy Of The Good digitaltonto.com/2025/why-the...
Why We Fail to Adapt — And The 3 Hidden Forces Holding You Back digitaltonto.com/2025/why-we-...
Why We Fail to Adapt — And The 3 Hidden Forces Holding You Back | Digital Tonto
There is probably no better example of institutional resistance to change than the story of Ignaz Semmelweis. In the 1840s, as a young doctor at Vienna General Hospital, he discovered that simple hand...
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December 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Why We Fail to Adapt — And The 3 Hidden Forces Holding You Back digitaltonto.com/2025/why-we-...
How To Leverage Cultural Triggers To Engineer A High Performance Organization digitaltonto.com/2025/how-to-...
How To Leverage Cultural Triggers To Engineer A High Performance Organization | Digital Tonto
Lou Gerstner, reflecting on his legendary turnaround at IBM, wrote, “Culture isn’t just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity...
digitaltonto.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
How To Leverage Cultural Triggers To Engineer A High Performance Organization digitaltonto.com/2025/how-to-...
AI Is Booming—And The Bust Could Be Even Bigger digitaltonto.com/2025/ai-is-b...
AI Is Booming—And The Bust Could Be Even Bigger | Digital Tonto
Looking at the AI boom from a historical perspective, the similarities to earlier technological cycles are striking. We see the same excitement, the same calls for government regulators to get out of ...
digitaltonto.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
AI Is Booming—And The Bust Could Be Even Bigger digitaltonto.com/2025/ai-is-b...
3 Stubborn Change Management Beliefs That Consistently Sabotage Genuine Transformation digitaltonto.com/2025/3-stubb...
3 Stubborn Change Management Beliefs That Consistently Sabotage Genuine Transformation | Digital Tonto
People become successful managers by adopting a manager mindset. They treat transformational initiatives as if they were just a scaled-up sales process. They focus on persuasion to try and build conse...
digitaltonto.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
3 Stubborn Change Management Beliefs That Consistently Sabotage Genuine Transformation digitaltonto.com/2025/3-stubb...
Here’s How You Build Change That Lasts digitaltonto.com/2025/heres-h...
Here’s How You Build Change That Lasts | Digital Tonto
Pixar founder Ed Catmull once wrote that “early on, all of our movies suck.” The trick, he explained, is to go beyond the initial germ of an idea and put in the hard work it takes to get something to ...
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November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Here’s How You Build Change That Lasts digitaltonto.com/2025/heres-h...
I just published This Is How You Bring Down A Dictator medium.com/p/this-is-ho...
This Is How You Bring Down A Dictator
Dictators fall not from outrage — but from strategy. Real change starts by targeting the institutions they depend on.
medium.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I just published This Is How You Bring Down A Dictator medium.com/p/this-is-ho...
Why The Perfect Is So Often The Enemy Of The Good digitaltonto.com/2025/why-the...
Why The Perfect Is So Often The Enemy Of The Good | Digital Tonto
You don’t have to go far to find someone advising you to “live your perfect life.” From self-help books and TED Talks urging us to “find our why,” to people posting pictures of their spouses and child...
digitaltonto.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Why The Perfect Is So Often The Enemy Of The Good digitaltonto.com/2025/why-the...
I just published How Tribal Instincts Drive Change medium.com/p/how-tribal...
How Tribal Instincts Drive Change
Change spreads through people, not plans. Tribal instincts show us how to start, scale, and sustain it.
medium.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I just published How Tribal Instincts Drive Change medium.com/p/how-tribal...
How Tribal Instincts Drive Change digitaltonto.com/2025/how-tri...
How Tribal Instincts Drive Change | Digital Tonto
The S-curve has become so ingrained in the lore of innovation and change that we scarcely think about where it came from or what drives it. We know that change starts slowly, with a few enthusiasts ex...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
How Tribal Instincts Drive Change digitaltonto.com/2025/how-tri...