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AI’s progress may be holding your team back

Perplexity AI: What You Need to Know
Perplexity doesn't get as much air time as other AI tools, but its features have the potential to change how you work.

How a Bayer CFO is thinking about AI ROI
Your CFO will want to see your plan for proving ROI before they greenlight your AI initiatives. But what we learned from Bayer CFO, Florian Zirnstein, is that not all CFOs need to see hard numbers to measure success.

Benchmarking Section’s AI Proficiency
We've talked a lot about the AI proficiency of the broader workforce - but is Section even walking the walk? We ran our own AI Proficiency Survey internally - here's how we did it, what we learned, and how we're measuring ROI.

ChatGPT o1: What’s cool, what’s hype, and what happens next
OpenAI just changed the LLM game with the release of ChatGPT o1. Here's what it means when it says it's "thinking", how to prompt it, and what this all means for the future.

Self-assessment: Does your team trust you?
I’m sure you’ve had a manager you didn’t trust.
Maybe that manager said she valued your time – but then canceled your 1:1 at the last minute because she just had to run out and get a smoothie.
Maybe he called you out in front of the team for a mistake he made. (Truly an unforgivable offense).
Whatever it was, you know that once trust is lost, it’s hard to get back...

Free trial vs. freemium: Which product-led growth tactic is right for you?
Have you ever set up a free trial to test drive a product before you bought it? We bet you have (and you might have even forgotten to cancel it after the week was up – oops).
In our workshop Driving Product-Led Growth, industry guru Wes Bush teaches you to use “try before you buy” tactics – like free trials, freemium, and demo modes – to capture customers long before they swipe their credit card.
Here, with Wes’ help, we share an easy-to-use framework for picking the tactic that’s right for your business.

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.

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.