Deep Thoughts

I was reading Blake J. Lopez’s recent piece on the disappearing CMO, and it hit on a frustration I’ve been feeling for a while. The headlines keep telling us the Chief Marketing Officer is a dying breed, tucked away under sales or operations because it's...

Some seasons of your career feel heavier than they should. You are doing good work. You are showing up. You are making thoughtful decisions. People trust you. Still, there are moments when you sit in your car after a long day or close your laptop at night and think: I...

A few weeks ago, I heard a statistic that stopped me in my tracks. Apparently, we are killing our creativity simply because we have forgotten how to be bored. We no longer have time for daydreaming because we always have a phone within arm’s reach. We don’t lay in bed...

Think back to the last meeting you attended where someone truly held the room. It wasn’t the person who spoke the loudest or the one with the flashiest slide deck. It was likely someone who possessed a certain gravity: a quiet, unshakeable presence that made you lean...

Someone dropped the "AI" bomb ten minutes into our quarterly strategy alignment. You know the moment. We were discussing the rollout of our new high-definition surveillance line: hardware that represents the pinnacle of physical security engineering: and...

Someone dropped the "AI" bomb ten minutes into our quarterly strategy alignment. You know the moment. We were discussing the rollout of our new high-definition surveillance line: hardware that represents the pinnacle of physical security engineering: and...

Standing in the convention hall at ISC West earlier this year, I looked down at my shoes. I was balanced on the giant "You Are Here" marker of a floor map, surrounded by the hum of thousands of security professionals. To my left, a massive screen displayed a...

The air in the Hilton Minneapolis felt different last week. It wasn't just the crisp June morning or the buzz of five hundred security professionals gathering for the fourth annual SecurityLeadHER conference. It was a specific kind of hum: the sound of a community...

The security industry has an obsession with the tangible. We can spend hours debating the merits of edge-based analytics versus cloud processing. We geek out over the latest multi-sensor cameras and the tactile "thunk" of a heavy-duty magnetic lock. These...