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When AI Does Your Job Faster

49% of employees secretly use AI at work. The other half are in denial. Both responses are destroying your transformation efforts.

Sep 11 •

Brennan McDonald

The Human Side of AI

Why Bringing Your Team Along Isn't Optional

Aug 29 •

Brennan McDonald

The Adaptive Operating System

A Practical Path to Operating Model Compression

Aug 22 •

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Why AI Winners Do More, Not Less

Focus wins. Except it doesn't anymore. Here's what Anthropic figured out that changes everything.

Aug 20 •

Brennan McDonald

The Netflix Playbook for When Your AI Provider Becomes Your Competitor

Windsurf lost Claude access with 5 days' notice. Your AI tool could vanish tomorrow. Here's the Netflix playbook that works: multiple providers…

Aug 15 •

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Your Data Is Ready for AI

How Clean Data Drives Business Transformation

Aug 13 •

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What GPT-5 Really Means For AI Transformation

Most AI analysts are missing the point - this all about non-expert perceptions

Aug 8 •

Brennan McDonald

The Great API Bait-and-Switch

As AI agents reshape commerce, API dominance becomes the new path to monopoly.

Aug 6 •

Brennan McDonald

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