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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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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.

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The AI:ROI Conference
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Is AI good enough to lay off your engineers?

Are AI coding tools good enough to replace humans? Here’s the verdict from a founder who had to make that choice.

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Coding
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How to find AI workflows that actually translate to ROI

AI is pointing out a big point of weakness in a lot of organizations: too few can actually name the value-generating processes that drive revenue. So Machine & Partners’ Ed Ortega is giving you his 5 step framework for doing just that.

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ROI
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Losing Our Minds To AI

Let’s have the hard conversation: Yes, AI reliance will atrophy your brain. But knowing that ahead of time can help you get ahead of it – before it impacts your job.

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Ex-OpenAI exec: Leaders lack AI conviction

ICs get a lot of the blame for stalling or failing AI deployments. But former OpenAI executive,  Zack Kass, says they could very well be the scapegoats for scrambling leadership.

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Leadership
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What you really need to know about ChatGPT-5

ICYMI, OpenAI launched ChatGPT-5 . If your head is still spinning from the other 6 models they’ve released this year, here’s our guide on what’s different and what you actually need to pay attention to.

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ChatGPT
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Which skills matter? Employees and L&D leaders don’t always agree [research]

Which skills matter in the modern workplace – to get promoted, to get ahead, to impact the business? It turns out that employees and learning leaders don’t always agree.

We recently surveyed 10,000 students and 250 learning leaders on the skills that are their biggest priority in 2023.

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leadership development
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Want to build the next Airbnb? 4 steps to get started

Airbnb changed the way we travel without purchasing any hotels. Uber made it easier to get around without amassing their own fleet. And DoorDash took care of breakfast without cracking a single egg.

The common thread between these companies is that they’re platform businesses. Rather than selling products directly, they’re providing a platform that conveniently connects sellers and buyers.

How do you follow in their footsteps? Here are four steps that can help you build a platform of your own.

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product strategy
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Why most corporate learning offerings suck (and how to fix it)

What percentage of employees actually use the skills they learn in L&D programs at their jobs?

Twelve percent.

If these numbers sound rough, that’s because they are...

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The three skills that actually matter to business growth

Do you ever look at a company like Google or Netflix and think, “I know we could be that successful – if only we had their people on our team”? 

The bad news: It’s impossibly expensive to recruit talent from the top tech companies.

The good news: You can develop this type of talent in-house, if you zero in on the skills that actually matter to drive business growth.

To help you, our research team looked at 100 of today’s top-performing organizations and identified the business skills that matter. 

These are the skills that should be your top priority in talent development. So let’s get started.

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