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How to build a Claude Plugin that benefits your whole team

Claude Plugins are changing what organizations can do with AI. Learn how to build a Plugin that benefits your whole team with democratized data.

Claude Plugin
Claude Cowork
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Pay your champions!

Most champions programs fizzle out because you're asking people to do real work and giving them nothing for it. Pay them, promote them, and they'll actually drive your transformation forward.

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The chasm is already visible

The competitive distance between companies experimenting seriously with agents and those that aren't is already further than you think, and it's widening every week.

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Notes from the field on AI transformation

If you're leading AI transformation, the highest-leverage investment you can make right now is activating your managers.

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Horizon Media’s AI takeover: Building an AI-first culture in less than one year

Horizon Media went from AI-nascent to 85% AI-certified in under a year by combining a company-wide mandate with protected learning time, visible leadership participation, and internal branding that made proficiency feel like a badge of honor.

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The president went first on AI. Everyone else followed.

Sidearm Sports president George Scott drove company-wide AI adoption by getting deeply fluent himself first, making AI proficiency part of every employee’s performance review, and requiring a real capability baseline before letting anyone join the AI committee.

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Why did HBO Max rebrand to Max? 4 insights

The internet responded to the HBO Max rebrand with an overwhelming, "Why?" So we dug in to find out the strategy behind their confusing move.

HBO Max
rebrand
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How Cascade took on its biggest competitor: the sink 

Want to attack your real competition instead of the company down the road no one knows about? Learn how Cascade depositioned their number one competitor: the sink.

positioning
competition
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How did Twitter's blue check mark go from status symbol to total embarrassment?

In less than six months, Twitter's blue check mark "verification" has gone from a status symbol for the rich and famous to a warning sign associated with Elon fanboys and trolls. We unpack what happened, using lessons in brand strategy and viral growth.

Twitter
Elon Musk
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5 steps to pick a winning investment ‍

Whether you’re the investor or the investee, the six-step Risk-Reward Framework can put you on the right path.

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venture capital
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Can ChatGPT write a positioning strategy?

ChatGPT can do a lot of amazing things. So what happened when we put it into an MBA-level positioning course?

Product positioning
MBA courses
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Why we rebranded (with a minimal amount of yogababble)

Let's skip the glossy merch shots and talk about the actual process of rebranding your company.

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Escaping the AI Use Case Desert

We launched a new agent in ProfAI: Use Case Coach. This is the solution to flailing enterprise AI adoption rates, here's why.

AI
ProfAI
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The hidden reasons you’re not getting AI ROI

If you’ve been thinking “I’m doing everything I’m supposed to, why is my AI deployment falling flat?” We have answers. TL;DR - you might be doing the right things, but only halfway.

AI
AI ROI
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Most leaders are thinking about AI all wrong

2026 is 60 short days away, so here’s the wake up call you need: you’re still thinking about AI through the lens of software, and the survival of your company depends on you shifting that mindset.

AI
Supercompanies
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Squishy vs. hard ROI: Why leaders need both

One of the hardest parts of AI ROI is figuring out how to report qualitative wins to execs who want quantitative reports. At our AI:ROI Conference, Michael Domanic shared the framework for approaching these two disparate kinds of ROI.

AI
ROI
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AI’s progress may be holding your team back

On paper, the rapid release of new AI models and features looks like a win for knowledge workers. In reality, teams are drowning in AI overwhelm. Here’s how leaders can help them scale an ever-steeper learning curve.

AI
AI Proficiency Report
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How to drive AI adoption at scale

If you missed Olya Taran’s session at The AI Strategy Summit, you missed one of the most practical frameworks of the day on one of the biggest problems leaders still face: Getting widespread AI adoption. We’re laying it out for you.

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Adoption
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