Key distinction: The gap between knowing AI is coming and strategizing for it. We had the roadmap; the risk was not being able to connect the dots. We Had the Roadmap. We Just Didn’t Use It. In 2016, Ajay Agrawal and co-authors published a piece in HBR called The Simple Economics of Machine Intelligence. The core argument was almost disarmingly simple:ContinueContinue reading “Predicting AI Was Not the Problem. Preparing for It Was.”
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Being a VP. Moving from doing to transforming
I — along with others — have often wondered “What does it mean to be a VP at a company?” Others have felt the sentiment “That VP is doing director-level work. They are ineffective at their responsibilities.” That last one is especially concerning. But there’s also an oft-missed component of being a great VP. The roleContinueContinue reading “Being a VP. Moving from doing to transforming”
Storytelling
I find the art of storytelling fascinating. That you can spellbound people with a narrative is fascinating to me. But, also, someone can write a story so bad not only does it not make sense, the sentences run long (like this one), seem fragmented, disjointed, meandering, and poorly constructed that you simply want to dropContinueContinue reading “Storytelling”
Lots of Time Spent Pruning
I feel like this winter there’s been a lot of pruning that’s been happening. I hope that means this summer much fruit will come. It would feel like a waste if I didn’t see much fruit from all the piercing and slicing pruning. Yet I’ve wrestled with this question for the past four weeks: isContinueContinue reading “Lots of Time Spent Pruning”
Jeff Beaumont 