THE AI ADVANTAGE | Stop mandating AI adoption if you aren't using it yourself. | This is the leadership failure quietly stalling enterprise transformation. You cannot command your team to reinvent their workflows while your own remain untouched. Your employees watch what you do, not what you mandate. | Stanford has the receipts. An NBER study of nearly 6,000 executives found that while 86% of companies require AI use, 70% of CEOs use it for less than an hour a week — and 28% never use it at all. Accenture CEO Julie Sweet has already made AI proficiency a strict condition for promotion. You cannot hold your team to a standard you refuse to meet. | The leaders winning the AI transition aren't writing memos. They are modeling the behavior. When a CEO uses AI to draft a company-wide update or analyze a financial report, it gives the entire organization permission to experiment. That is how you lead a transformation. | | IN PARTNERSHIP WITH TIDB POWERED BY PINGCAP |
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| | TRY THIS NOW | Here is how to close the gap in the next 10 minutes — and make it a habit. Use ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. | Pick one recurring weekly task that drains your energy — summarizing Friday status reports, drafting board updates, or analyzing competitor news. Open your preferred AI tool and run the task side-by-side with your manual process. Don't delegate it to your assistant. Do it yourself. Share the result with your leadership team. Tell them exactly how you prompted it, where it failed, and how much time it saved you.
| | PROMPT OF THE WEEK | Turn raw meeting notes into a decisive executive summary | Act as a ruthless chief of staff. Review these raw meeting notes. Extract the three most critical decisions made, the two biggest unresolved risks, and assign the exact next actions to specific owners. Format as a bulleted list. Do not include pleasantries or filler text. [Insert raw notes here]
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| | | Keep learning with these upcoming free virtual Lunch & Learn sessions — a hands-on, practical conversations designed as a prequel to All Things AI. | March 18 | Building Agents with Granite Workshop— Real-world AI adoption strategies for small organizations and nonprofits, including ready-to-adapt prompts and process maps you can bring back to your team. | |
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| | THE EDGE | Executives predict AI will boost productivity by 2.3% over the next three years. Their workers predict just 0.9%. That gap isn't about data — it's about distance. Leaders see the potential; employees live the friction. | Your move: Before your next all-hands, ask three frontline managers to walk you through exactly where AI slows them down. You'll learn more in 30 minutes than any survey will tell you. | | Forward this to your COO with one line: "This is the operational shift I was talking about." | P.S. I ran three parallel Cowork sessions this morning — one for the newsletter, one for a client proposal, and one for data analysis. I finished all three before lunch. | — Mark | | How did we do with this edition of the AIE? | |
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