When tools like Claude went mainstream, many knowledge workers felt uneasy. For freelance copywriter Leigh Ann Shelton, the impact was immediate and financial. Shelton’s job was to do what good copywriters have always done: translate a client’s voice into persuasive marketing language. Websites. Campaigns. Brand messaging. The kind of work that depends on tone, clarity,...
For the past two years, many conversations about AI in the workplace have revolved around productivity. How do we get more output? How do we automate tasks? How do we reduce cost? All important questions. But they’re still focused on efficiency while the real performance breakthroughs in organizations don’t come from speed alone. They come...
Companies in most industries are investing heavily in artificial intelligence: 88% of companies reporting regular AI use. Yet many leaders report familiar frustrations. AI adoption stalls. Performance gains plateau. Employees experiment with new tools but don’t integrate them deeply into how work actually gets done, leaving executives increasingly concerned about ROI. Our research suggests this is...
By any conventional startup logic, LumberFi should already be slowing down. In just two years, the construction-tech platform has gone from zero to more than 70 employees, 5× annual growth, and recognition from both NASDAQ and the NYSE as one of the fastest-growing companies in its category. But founder and CEO Shreesha Ramdas is already operating in...
Across large enterprises, AI is moving quickly from experimentation into daily work. That shift is forcing leaders to confront issues they can’t delegate to technology: how performance is measured, how people are supported through change, and how values show up when machines start doing more of the work. Not every company is approaching those questions...
If you’re using AI only to automate, you’re already behind. The real winners are rebuilding work itself with systems designed to learn. Every CEO I talk to has an AI task force. Most have pilots underway. A few have even launched “AI Centers of Excellence”. Many think they’re deploying AI to automate work. In reality,...
When generative AI entered the enterprise, many companies correctly identified the chief information officer–chief human resources officer (CIO–CHRO) partnership as the power team for the AI era. The logic made sense. AI was new technology. It would change skills, roles, and how people worked. Surely the leaders of technology and talent, working hand-in-hand, were the right stewards to drive the transformation....
AI adoption is accelerating how fast companies build software—but the real crisis is running what they’ve built. As AI multiplies code, apps, and complexity, most organizations are hitting an invisible “glass wall”: their people and operations can’t keep up. The leaders who win won’t just ship faster—they’ll redesign how software is operated, or risk being crushed by their own AI success....
This is a continuation of my series spotlighting the companies that are truly AI native: organizations rethinking work at its core, not just bolting algorithms onto legacy processes. Each profile explores how these pioneers treat AI as an operating system for execution rather than a surface-level add-on. Notch represents one of the boldest examples. Instead of...
I’ve spent the past decade inside the guts of elite teams, from Fortune 100 giants to scrappy startups. Here’s the truth: Teamship still rules. But the rules are changing. Co-elevation, my term for teammates lifting each other higher, is still the engine of breakthrough performance. But now we’re building that engine with AI. Recently, I hosted a dinner in New York City for 70...
AI is the new electricity, but for CIOs, the real power lies not just in plugging into it, but in understanding the grid. Vendors will say they’re “powered by AI.” But ask a few deeper questions, and you’ll uncover a wide range of capabilities. Some built for lightweight automation, others trained to solve complex industry-specific...
Over the past several months, I’ve been chasing a question that feels central to our time: What does it really mean to be an AI-first company? Not the buzzword version, but the lived reality. What do these organizations see that others don’t? How do they operate differently? Not simply because they use AI, but because AI...
When I look at the leaders best equipped to guide companies through the turbulence of AI transformation, one question keeps surfacing: Could tomorrow’s most successful CEOs come from today’s CTO and CIO ranks? Certainly not every future CEO will come directly from the CTO or CIO’s chair. But every successful CEO will need the qualities of...
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