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Quick Tips for my Network
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Oct 29
Just Try This #16 — The Call Is Coming From Inside the House 🎃
The scariest call this Halloween might sound exactly like someone you love. A familiar voice isn’t proof anymore. It’s just a voice.
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Oct 25
Just Try This #15 — Your Password Isn’t a Permission Slip 👻
Want a real Halloween scare? Forget the haunted house. Go look at who still has a key to your money.
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Oct 18
Just Try This #14 — The Habits Outlast the Model
Many of us don’t get to pick our AI. Our employer does, and for a lot of us that means Copilot. Models will keep changing. Your judgment is what transfers.
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Oct 4
Just Try This #13 — Not Every Question Needs the Biggest Brain
Most of us now have more than one AI model in front of us. A fast one. A thinking one. Sometimes a dropdown full of names we don't recognize. And the easy button “auto”.
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Sep 25
Just Try This #12 — The 3–2–1 Agent Check
If you’re building an agent, don’t try to make version one do everything. Start with a 3–2–1 check.
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Sep 22
Just Try This #11 — Stop Scaling AI to People. Start Scaling It to Roles.
We have spent a lot of time teaching individuals how to use AI. Prompt better. Build an agent. Automate a task.
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Sep 20
Just Try This #10 — Your Employees Have AI. Your Management Model Doesn’t.
Your employee uses AI exactly the way you asked them to. They research faster, pressure-test the thinking, improve the work, and put a really solid deliverable in front of you.
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Sep 13
Just Try This #9 — Am I Going to Have to Explain This to AI Again?
I’ve realized I do something with AI that is probably a little ridiculous. I’ll have a great conversation, give it all the context, explain exactly what I need, work through the details…
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Sep 11
Just Try This #8 - Protect the Thinking Reps
We are teaching everyone how to use AI. But who is making sure we are still teaching people how to think?
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Sep 7
Just Try This #7: HR, This Might Be Your Moment
AI transformation is quickly becoming workforce transformation. And that means HR has a much bigger opportunity than helping people adopt the technology.
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Sep 4
Just Try This #6: Get Smarter Faster by Talking to AI
One of the most underrated ways to use AI is also one of the simplest: Talk to it. Not just to get an answer.
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Sep 2
Just Try This #5: Creating Human Capacity
I keep thinking about one of the stranger contradictions of the AI era. Companies used to buy the coffee. Then we got sophisticated. The coffee expense got allocated across cost centers.
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Aug 31
Just Try This #4: One for the Strategy People
Quite a bit of AI strategic thinking is made public. McKinsey. EY. BCG. Deloitte have published research sitting in plain sight.
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Aug 27
Just Try This #3: AI Troubleshoots the Boat
Let AI troubleshoot with you and save the day! My husband and I were getting ready to take the boat out when it started making that sound.
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Aug 25
Just Try This #2: Make Copilot Argue Against You
Today something for my advanced Copilot users: try this before your next important meeting.
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Aug 24
Just Try This #1: Pricing a Lake House From the Pontoon
For the person who keeps hearing about AI but still isn't quite sure what to do with it. This weekend I was out on a lake in Minnesota, sitting on the pontoon, when we passed this house…
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Aug 23
ChatGPT and Claude Argued Over My Basement
I've been working on finishing roughly 2,000 square feet of our basement, and what started as a home project has become one of the clearest examples I've had of how AI can elevate the human…
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Aug 22
It Starts With a Cabin in the Woods
I had one of those little AI moments this weekend that reminded me why I care so much about AI enablement.
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Jul 1
A Different Kind of Independence
Most organizations treat AI Enablement as a function. Training. Communications. Governance. Change management… But what if we're looking at it the wrong way?
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Jun 19
Accelerating the Dream-Build Loop
Once you start doing this you will be hooked! Start small — see what you can dream-build with AI in a 45 minute walk/chat. Post what you're working on… no ideas are too small!
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Jun 18
Leadership in a Year of Unprecedented Change
One of the most valuable reminders from Mastering Leadership Dynamics is that leadership is about influence, trust, adaptability, and the ability to bring people together around a shared…
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May 2026
What the Atlanta Prompt-a-Thon Proved
Delivered our Atlanta Prompt-a-thon this past week — and the signal is clear: when you put the right tools in people's hands, capability scales fast.
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Apr 2026
The Gap Is No Longer Access
It's clear now… the gap is no longer access — it's capability. And capability doesn't build evenly.
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Apr 2026
AI Isn't Failing Because of the Technology
Over the past year, working in AI business adoption, one thing has become very clear to me: AI isn't failing in enterprises because of the technology.
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Apr 2026
Two Prompt-a-Thons, 70 Associates
Today we ran two high-energy prompt-a-thons across 70 associates — and the results were outstanding.
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