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Why Smart Leaders Are Still Hesitant About AI
(And What They're Missing)
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Brennan McDonald
The Monday Morning AI Test
Tomorrow morning, ask 5 employees what wastes their time. That's where your AI should start. Not another pilot. A real solution.
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Brennan McDonald
Why Your Smartest People Are Your Biggest Problem
Smart people need smart change strategies. Let's design yours.
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Brennan McDonald
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.
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Brennan McDonald
The Human Side of AI
Why Bringing Your Team Along Isn't Optional
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Brennan McDonald
The Adaptive Operating System
A Practical Path to Operating Model Compression
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Brennan McDonald
Why AI Winners Do More, Not Less
Focus wins. Except it doesn't anymore. Here's what Anthropic figured out that changes everything.
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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…
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Brennan McDonald
Your Data Is Ready for AI
How Clean Data Drives Business Transformation
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Brennan McDonald
What GPT-5 Really Means For AI Transformation
Most AI analysts are missing the point - this all about non-expert perceptions
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Brennan McDonald
The Great API Bait-and-Switch
As AI agents reshape commerce, API dominance becomes the new path to monopoly.
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Brennan McDonald
The Algorithmic War
AI systems compete in microseconds. Your business decisions take days. See the problem?
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Brennan McDonald
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