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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.

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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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The 3 AI strategy investments leaders should make in 2026

Here are the places leaders need to be investing resources next year - but let's make one thing clear: This is at the cost of some of your other 2026 strategies.

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Strategy
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The 5 AI investments marketing teams should make in 2026

If you’re a marketing leader staring down the barrel of your 2026 budget sheet wondering what should get top priority, you’re in luck. Hubspot's SVP of Marketing, Kieran Flanagan, gave us his top 5 recommendations.

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Marketing
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Is SEO dead or is GEO hype?

There’s no doubt about it, marketing is changing with AI. But are the old ways actually dead or are flashy new strategies like GEO all smoke?

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GEO
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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.

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AI Tools
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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.

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Workflow redesign
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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.

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Agents
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AI is good enough, the humans need help

Newsflash if you’re waiting for AI to get better before you invest: It’s already pretty good, it’s the people using it that need to get a lot better – and fast. Greg is taking over this week’s newsletter to show you why.

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Leadership
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Passing the EU’s AI Literacy Requirements

Starting February 2025, The European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act) mandated an "AI Literacy" requirement. Here's what that means for you.

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EU AI Act
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Build, Buy, or Wait: The Leader’s Guide to AI Adoption

Edmundo Ortega spends all day rethinking a company’s core workflows with AI. So we asked him when companies should build custom AI solutions and when they should buy off-the-shelf. That’s when he introduced a third option – neither.

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EY's Global Head of AI: Don’t rush to prove AI ROI

If you feel like you’re falling behind because you haven’t figured out how to make a bulletproof investment in AI, read on for John Thompson’s take on why you actually need to slow down and stop sweating the ROI.

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AI ROI
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Staying silent on AI is almost as bad as banning it

The piece of data from our latest AI Proficiency Report that we can’t stop thinking about: Silence on AI breeds more AI skepticism than an outright AI ban. So if you’ve been gathering your thoughts on AI, now is the time to put them in writing.

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Change Management
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Why shadow AI is probably happening in your company

We surveyed over 5,000 knowledge workers in the second half of 2024 on AI knowledge, skill, and usage. One of the most troubling takeaways: AI use is happening, whether your company sanctions it or not, and the implications are huge.

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AI Proficiency Report
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