And that is the most important leadership signal of 2026 There are few things rarer and harder than the courage to look at the thing that feeds you — the product, the model, the revenue engine that built your empire — and choose to rebuild it yourself, while it is still working better than ever, before anyone begins to disrupt you. Google just did exactly that. At Google IO 2026, the company announced a set of moves that, taken together, constitute a deliberate act of self-disruption at a scale rarely seen in corporate history. The headlines spoke about Gemini 3.5, … Continue reading