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Most leaders are thinking about AI all wrong

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.

Can you build a team of just AI tools?
The same question has persisted all year: Can you reduce headcount by just using AI tools? Google’s Amit Rawal is trialing a largely AI-based team, and here are his lessons.

How to redesign roles with AI
Augmenting workflows is just the beginning of working with AI. To unlock huge time savings and strategy opportunities, eventually you need to rethink those processes altogether.

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 Agents Explained: The clear, no-hype definition
“Agents” have become one of the biggest hyped and most misused terms in AI. So here’s the real definition from someone who builds AI solutions for a living.

There’s plenty of AI ROI - if you’re willing to work for it
A theme emerged in the chat of this year's AI:ROI Conference: 11 experts shared their value-adding AI strategies but people were just looking for magic formulas. Here were the biggest insights we think they overlooked.

How to use AI microapps without compromising security
AI can now code you a custom ready-to-deploy application in sub-10 minutes, just by prompting it. Machine & Partners’ Edmundo Ortega walked us through the huge opportunity of these microapps – and the huge risks.

Leaking our own AI manifesto
We’ve been all in on AI for a while – but this week we made it official. In this week’s newsletter, Greg is sharing his newest thinking on AI, and why we changed our domain to sectionai.com.




