Boris Blum, The CEO Consigliere

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Boris BlumThe CEO Consigliere

The hardest decisions at the top are the ones you can’t discuss with anyone who has a stake in the answer. He is the one with no stake — only your interest.

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What makes his counsel different

Most advisors know one of your two worlds. Boris has lived them both.

Every leader runs two games at once — the inner game of the person and the outer game of the enterprise — and AI now multiplies them both. Boris is the rare counsel who has lived each side himself, across five roles, and gives you the whole picture with no agenda of his own.

The inner game

The person, performing at their best

The decisions that wear on a leader rarely live on a spreadsheet. They live in clarity, focus, energy, and nerve — in whether the person at the center is operating anywhere near their best.

This is the inner work of optimal performance and human flourishing — lifetime learning, sustained energy, and clear judgment that keep the one irreplaceable asset, you, sharp enough to carry everything else.

× AI the multiplier — across both worlds
The outer game

An enterprise that thrives, not just survives

An enterprise exists to support far more than its founder — it carries everyone who depends on it. The two can’t thrive apart: how you show up as a leader and how the business is built and run decide which way it goes.

This is the outer work of capital, organization, and operating discipline — protecting and compounding what you’ve built so the enterprise doesn’t merely survive the quarter, but thrives and keeps growing for years.

Advisor · Entrepreneur · Investor · Strategist · Advocate

Five roles, held over one career. He has sat in each chair.

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On Substack

Two publications. Both written plainly, both given away in full.

Perspectives

His plain-spoken read on markets, macro, and the long game of wealth.

Where Boris writes on the markets, the macro picture, and protecting and growing capital — the same counsel he gives in private.

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The Human Edge

His weekly essay on leadership in the age of AI.

Where Boris writes on what AI changes for the people who lead businesses — and the human judgment it cannot replace.

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His point of view

The Chasm and the Castle

“The question is not whether AI is here. The question is who figures out how to use it — and the window is open now.”

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Interviewed on national radio and podcasts — including FOX, iHeart, and Audacy.

Fox News Radio iHeart Radio KDKA Audacy This Morning with Gordon Deal WEEI
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