Productivity
Posts filed under Productivity.
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Making the same work faster is not enough
At Berry, I see the gain in changing the manager's work: AI handles sales evaluations, while managers help salespeople practice. Faster reports alone leave the old work in place.
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Don't Pick Your First AI Pilot by Performance Alone
Your best performer can belong in your first AI pilot, but performance alone isn't a reason to choose them. I look for people willing to test a different way of working, then check their feedback against the finished work.
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You Can Afford More Agents. You Can't Afford to Watch Them.
I have spare tokens but not spare attention. I capped the tasks I follow at once, but I stopped counting dropped threads afterward, so I cannot claim the cap improved the work.
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The Four Stages of Reviewing AI Work
Reviewing AI work moves from trusting too much to checking everything, then to a written standard and better-aimed review. The company can run slower while it learns, so plan for the tuning.
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Your Team Isn't Resisting AI. Nobody Gave Them the Hours.
In the rollouts I've helped fix, resistance often turned out to be missing time, poor design or stale training. The calendar needs to change with the tool.
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AI Layoffs Can Start With the Clients You Lose
A firm can lose jobs because AI takes over work, or because it stops winning clients. I would look at the business you can sustain before making the staffing call.
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The downturn playbook for AI-native firms: cut the fat, not the capability
If revenue falls, I would find waste before cutting the people and systems clients depend on, then give any real AI-saved time a clear job.
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Constraint Whack-a-Mole: What AI Adoption Feels Like
If AI makes ten reports and your team can safely check five, more drafts won't get more work to the client. Start by managing the whole queue.
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Age Predicts Who Adopts AI. Skill Predicts Who Benefits.
Before cutting juniors, look at what they can do with AI and where your next seniors will come from. Sort work by the cost of a mistake, with review and training built in.
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The Extra Time AI Buys You Is Already Gone
At Berry, faster AI tasks left a management job undone. Decide where saved time goes and count the checking and rework before calling it a gain.