Humans should be thankful and grateful that a perfect combination of vision, technological innovation, and those who believed in the power of collaboration — between individuals, groups, industry, and those willing to finally build something — can solve the immense challenges that we all face together now.
Forget the work silos, the hoarding of intelligence and information, and the inability to understand that cooperation is better. Working together to solve huge problems everywhere is how anything great has ever been built. I saw this firsthand at CityCenter, where thousands of people across companies and trades had to cooperate to raise a $9.2 billion development none of them could have built alone. No single company, no single mind, no single silo did that. Collaboration did.
Now we're able to work on things at an exponentially larger scale. There should be no reason, with AI leading us into a brand-new world of possibilities — the greatest systems and mind-computer power — that we can't start healing, repairing, and cooperating for the same ends: simply doing the right things, unselfishly.
Forty years in hotel real estate taught me that the best outcomes were never produced by the person who kept the most information to themselves. They were produced by the people who shared it — the researcher who handed the market study to the dealmaker, the operator who told the underwriter what the lobby really looked like. Intelligence hoarded is intelligence wasted. Intelligence shared builds things that last.
That is my hope for this new era: that we treat these extraordinary tools the way the best teams I ever worked with treated shared knowledge — as something to be opened, not guarded. The challenges are immense. So is what we can build together.