Every executive has quoted Wayne Gretzky. "Skate to where the puck is going, not to where it is." It has become wallpaper. And most of the people quoting it are doing the opposite with their companies, their teams, their websites, and their own leadership.

They are building for where the world is today. And the world is not staying there.

In this episode, Thomas Anglero — Strategic AI Advisor to Boards and Executive Leaders — walks through three places where this matters most, and one place it matters above all.

HIRING

Stop hiring for problems. Start hiring for problem-solvers. Thomas shares a concrete interview scenario: your company has an expensive CRM problem, and instead of asking candidates "how would you solve this?" you ask them to solve it — live, in the interview, using AI as a thinking partner. What you actually hire is not domain expertise. You hire the ability to collaborate with intelligence that already has the expertise. And your existing team, once they learn to work the same way, becomes a 10x force multiplier instead of a ceiling.

YOUR WEBSITE

A website used to be a 24-hour store. Today, it is being read by AI agents who are selling on your behalf — if you have built it so they can. When an executive asks ChatGPT or Claude "who are the best AI advisors for boards?" — is your website giving the AI a clean answer, or leaving it to guess? Thomas describes rebuilding anglero.com to

implement every emerging AI-readable standard, some so new that Google's own tools do not recognize them yet. That is exactly where you want to be.

YOU

The part most business articles skip. Skating to where the puck is going is uncomfortable. You make decisions on incomplete information. You invest in capabilities that do not yet show measurable ROI. Your board wants performance now. Your people are leaving. The geopolitical ground is shifting — a strait closes and half of Europe is back to working from home. Your partner does not fully see what you carry.

There is an American expression Thomas loves: embrace the suck. Life is hard right now. The ground is unstable. Lean into that. Stop waiting for certainty before acting. The discomfort is the signal that you are actually moving forward instead of defending a position.

Skate to where the puck is going. Embrace the suck. These are not separate ideas. They are the same idea in two directions — one about the world, one about yourself.

You have got this.

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Clarity at the Top is the podcast for boards, CEOs, and senior

executives navigating AI, geopolitical disruption, and the redefinition of leadership itself. Hosted by Thomas Anglero — Strategic AI Advisor, former Nordic CTO at Cognizant, and founder of the IBM Watson Lab for Cancer Research.

No hype. No fluff. Just clarity for the people who carry the weight of the decision.

New episodes weekly.

Follow Thomas :

Website: https://Anglero.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anglero/

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Instagram: https://instagram.com/thomasanglero

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