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The Forge 🔥 of Unicorns - by Michele Brissoni

Michele Brissoni

Welcome to The Forge 🔥 of Unicorns — the podcast where digital evolution meets elite performance. 🚀I’m Michele Brissoni (Mike) — Tech Advisor, Fractional CTO, and Board-Level Strategist.Over the past two decades, I’ve invented models and frameworks that have reshaped how organizations evolve in the software era:BOKaRy 📈 — our latest innovation, a Behavioral-OKR governance framework bridging vision, behavior, and delivery to generate exceptional ROI for boards, CEOs, and investors.SW Craftsmanship

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1:16:13

🎙️ EP59 - OKR – The Agile Resurrector 🧬

The Forge 🔥 of Unicorns - by Michele Brissoni ·

2025/05/13

Agile is collapsing under its own market weight.Drowned in certifications, fake agility coaches, and checkbox processes.The purpose? Forgotten.The manifesto? Commercialized.The results? Burnout, silos, disengagement.It’s not a transformation.It’s a crime scene.💥 But what if we could resurrect Agile from the wreckage?Not with another framework.Not with another Jira template.But with OKRs — the real ones.👉 Not dashboards.👉 Not vanity metrics.👉 But behavioral scaffolding — rewiring the way people

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1:04:32

🎙️ EP58 - You Don’t Even Know What Good Looks Like....

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2025/05/06

They think they’re doing software right. But they’ve never seen real excellence.That’s the leadership trap and why companies stall, lose talent, and drift into mediocrity.In this honest conversation with unicorn builder Alexander Steeb, we expose the hidden dysfunctions behind underperforming IT teams, blind leadership, and the cost of hype-driven decisions.👉 Why most organizations don’t know what good looks like👉 How “walking assets” leave silently when excellence is missing👉 Why founders need

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1:06:15

🎙️ EP57 - When Excellence Isn’t Optional: How...

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2025/04/29

Compliance isn’t excellence.And in today’s IT world, that illusion is costing millions — and lives.In this powerful episode, Michele Brissoni (Creator of the Unicorns’ Ecosystem and SW Craftsmanship Dojo®) is joined by Ute Mercker (Investment Director @IBB Ventures) to uncover a brutal but critical truth:✅ In healthcare, regulations protect human lives.👨🏻‍⚕️ But it’s doctors’ mastery, ethics, and relentless practice that actually save them.✅ In IT and software-driven organizations, leadership

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1:01:18

🎙️EP 56 - Professionalism Isn’t Optional

The Forge 🔥 of Unicorns - by Michele Brissoni ·

2025/04/22

Most startups don’t die from bad code. They die from bad leadership.In this episode of The Forge of Unicorns, I sit down with Bryony Cooper (VC, founder, and human-first investor) to unravel the silent killers of startup growth: vanity metrics, boardroom dysfunction, and uncoached leadership.🚨 You’ll learn:• Why professionalism becomes non-negotiable at Series A/B• How bad behavior at the top spreads like wildfire• Why burnout isn’t a founder failure—it’s a system failure• How elite organizations

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1:20:56

🎙️ EP55 - From Mediocracy to Mastery 🧭 Rewiring...

The Forge 🔥 of Unicorns - by Michele Brissoni ·

2025/04/15

🎧EP55 – From Mediocracy to Mastery 🧭 Rewiring Leadership🏷️ How to escape organization mediocracy!Most teams aren’t broken — their leadership is underpowered.In this pivotal episode, Calm Capital’s Marty Balkema and David Horne reveal what really fuels sustainable growth: stewardship, not transformation.From owning vertical SaaS companies to rebuilding cultures from the boardroom down, Calm Capital shows us what happens when leadership gets the coaching, clarity, and support it actually needs.🧠

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51:45

🎙️ EP54 - Mediocrity is a leadership choice!

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2025/04/08

When we say “mediocrity is a leadership choice,” we’re not just being dramatic. In this first face-off between researcher and investor, Mike challenges the venture capital mindset—and VC Oussama Glilah (@ Razor Capital) doesn’t just agree… he confirms it all.💥 From the absence of engineering standards to the myth of plug-and-play talent, this episode dismantles the fantasy that unicorns are born from flashy ideas or frameworks.🔧 They’re built—through behaviorally engineered environments, prompt

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51:06

🎙️ EP53 - VibeCoding Won’t Build Unicorns 🦄 … they...

The Forge 🔥 of Unicorns - by Michele Brissoni ·

2025/04/01

In this mind-blowing episode, I sit down with Andy Will, founder of Willpower Venture Capital, to reveal a bold new approach: behavioral engineering as the ultimate VC advantage.Forget spreadsheets and cookie-cutter playbooks — Andy shares how he backs founders who build elite teams, set cultural standards from day one, and scale without the chaos.🔥 Inside the episode:• Why 0.9% of tech talent is all that matters — and how to find it• How to detect and detox toxic cultures before they sink your

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47:03

🎙️ EP 52 - The Quantum Invasion Is Here: Why Your...

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2025/03/25

🚀 The Quantum Shift Has Officially Begun… 🚀This week on Forge of Unicorns, we sit down with Matthew Cimaglia, Tech Innovator | Multi-Time Founder | Managing Partner at Quantum Coast Capital, leading the charge in quantum technology investments.With NVIDIA’s jaw-dropping Quantum Day announcement, the race just got real. Matthew unpacks:✅ Why Quantum is the next AI moment — but way bigger✅ How coding for Quantum today avoids tomorrow’s tech debt nightmare✅ Why the security apocalypse is closer than

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50:19

🎙️ EP 51 – Sam Palazzolo Confirms Our Research

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2025/03/20

📰 Original blog post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ep-51-sam-palazzolo-confirms-our-research-how-smart-brissoni-pp5ef/---💡 Most companies waste millions on digital transformation—and fail. What if, instead, you could engineer IT into a high-value asset that fuels exponential growth?93% of digital transformations fail. Companies throw money at new tech, yet only 7% see real results. Why? Because transformation isn’t just about software—it’s about leadership, execution, and strategy.🎙️ In this

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14:39

EP 50 - 97.5% of IT Investments Are DOOMED 📉

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2025/03/18

🎙️ Episode 50: The Unicorns’ Ecosystem—Flipping the Script on IT Investments 🚀📰 Original blog post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ep-50-975-investments-doomed-heres-how-top-flipping-brissoni-np79f/---💰 97.5% of IT investments NEVER reach unicorn status.📉 Even those that do, 80% see their valuations crash—nearly 30% fall below the $1B mark.🤯 Yet, most investors still rely on gut instinct instead of engineering high-performance companies from day one.🚨 Why do so many IT investments fail? More

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17:36

EP49- Want to Engineer Unicorns 🦄?

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2025/03/11

🎙️ Episode 49 - The Open-Source Playbook Investors Are Using to Engineer Unicorns 🚀📰 Original Blog post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ep-49-want-engineer-unicorns-open-source-playbook-already-brissoni-8gpuf/🛑 52% of Fortune 500 Companies Have Vanished Since 2000—Have We Really Learned Why They Failed?👉 Some investors have—and they’re quietly engineering unicorns while others keep making the same mistakes.In this episode of The Forge of Unicorns, we unveil the ultimate open-source playbook for

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17:39

EP48 - Fake Productivity: The Deadly Illusion of...

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2025/03/04

🎙️ EP 48 – Fake Productivity: The Deadly Illusion of AI-Generated Code 💣📰 Original blog post with all the bibliography: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ep48-fake-productivity-deadly-illusion-ai-generated-brissoni-rlp8c/---AI-generated code is flooding development workflows faster than ever—but are we really moving forward, or are we just accelerating into chaos?In this episode of The Forge of Unicorns, Michele Brissoni unpacks the hard-hitting data behind two years of GenAI-assisted coding and

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11:28

EP47 - Lost Millions in IT?

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2025/02/25

🎙️💣 Lost Millions in IT? Here’s the 300% Stock Surge Playbook Auditors Loved 😍 🎙️📰 Original article - HERE.Hey digital warriors! ⚔️In this episode of The Forge of Unicorns, we dive deep into an incredible IT turnaround story—from hemorrhaging millions to a 300% stock surge, all thanks to behavioral engineering, OKRs, and rock-solid IT governance. 💥What’s inside this episode?✅ How a crumbling IT organization transformed into a high-performing powerhouse.✅ The secret sauce: behaviorally

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15:55

EP46 - Scaling Excellence: The OKR Lessons from a...

The Forge 🔥 of Unicorns - by Michele Brissoni ·

2025/02/18

🎙️ EP46 - Scaling Excellence: The OKR Lessons from a Bold CIO 🎙️📰 Orignal Blog Post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ep46-scaling-excellence-okr-lessons-from-bold-cio-michele-brissoni-cbhef/?trackingId=870B2EfrQOWfg2mHtoihuw%3D%3DAre your OKRs driving true excellence, or are they just glorified KPIs enforcing compliance?In this episode, we break down a real-world transformation where a bold CIO turned OKRs into a north star for technical mastery—scaling an IT organization from near-collapse to a

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18:21

EP 45 - The Dojos' Ecosystem

The Forge 🔥 of Unicorns - by Michele Brissoni ·

2025/02/11

🎙️ Episode 45📇 From Mediocracy to Mastery: How the Dojos’ Ecosystem Became the Engine of Evolution 🌱In the AI-driven economy, software excellence isn’t a luxury—it’s a competitive necessity. The recent DeepSeek R1 launch sent shockwaves through the market, wiping over $1 trillion from the Nasdaq, proving that high-quality software beats brute-force infrastructure spending.But how do you systematically engineer a culture of excellence in software organizations? 🤔🔍 In this episode, we break it

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19:09

EP 44 - Behind the Curtain

The Forge 🔥 of Unicorns - by Michele Brissoni ·

2025/02/03

EP 44 - Behind the Curtain: The Digital Evolution That Redefined Excellence 🎭🚀📰 Original Blog Post🔊 IT was a liability. Deployments were slow. Teams were burned out. Leadership was flying blind. Sound familiar?This episode pulls back the curtain on a real story from the trenches—where IT, once a black hole of inefficiency, was rewired into a $5B strategic goldmine.📉 What went wrong?•Legacy tech was strangling innovation.•Feature releases crawled out quarterly (if they even made it).•The team

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11:23

EP 43 - From Chaos to Gold

The Forge 🔥 of Unicorns - by Michele Brissoni ·

2025/01/28

🎙️ Episode 43: From Chaos to Gold – How IT Can Rise Like a Phoenix📰 Original Blog PostIn this episode, we tackle a hard truth: most IT departments are treated as cost centers, shackled by inefficiencies and shadow IT that drains profitability. Instead of driving innovation and enhancing product or service value, they’re stuck in mediocracy, operating in subpar ways that fail to contribute to organizational success.🚨 With 93% of digital transformations failing and $2.5T wasted in 2024 alone, how

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15:10

EP 42 - 70% of Transformations Fail at the Top

The Forge 🔥 of Unicorns - by Michele Brissoni ·

2025/01/21

📰 Original Blog Post: HERE.In this episode of The Forge of Unicorns 🦄, we uncover the #1 reason most digital transformations crash and burn—and it’s not what you think. It’s not IT teams, tech budgets, or even unrealistic timelines. The real culprit?👉 Leadership’s lack of engagement and alignment.Join us as we:💡 Explore why 70% of digital transformation failures start at the boardroom, backed by insights from McKinsey & Company.📝 Reveal how boards can rewrite the narrative by aligning

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15:32

EP41 - From Desert 🌵 to Forest 🌳

The Forge 🔥 of Unicorns - by Michele Brissoni ·

2025/01/14

Episode 41 - From Desert 🌵 to Forest 🌳: Turning IT Into a Goldmine of Opportunity 💰📰 Original Blog postIn this episode of The Forge of Unicorns, we take you on a transformative journey, exploring how IT can evolve from a costly liability into a profit-driving, strategic asset. The secret? Behavioral Markers—or Key Behavioral Indicators (KBIs)—that reveal whether your organization is thriving in a collaborative “Forest” 🌳 or stuck in a barren “Desert” 🌵.Join Michele Brissoni as he unpacks how

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17:01

EP40 – Scaling IT Excellence: From Transformation to...

The Forge 🔥 of Unicorns - by Michele Brissoni ·

2025/01/07

🎧 Podcast Description: Episode 40 – Scaling IT Excellence: From Transformation to Evolution 🎙️🚀📰 Original blog post HEREIn this episode of The Forge of Unicorns, we cut through the noise of buzzwords and hype to address the heart of IT’s most critical challenge: scaling excellence. 💡The numbers don’t lie:•91% of digital transformations fail (McKinsey, 2020).•77% of employees are disengaged, costing billions in lost productivity (Gallup, 2024).•And let’s not forget, 38% of professionals are

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