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Technology
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Dec 23, 2025
How an AI investment bubble lays the foundation for what businesses want.
AI
Dec 16, 2025
AI is the missing layer between customer intent and business expertise.
People
Dec 9, 2025
Persistence, Curiosity and Collective Drive are my preferred hiring criteria. Here’s why.
Finance
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Dec 2, 2025
A founder’s guide to spotting when workloads outgrow pay-as-you-go models.
Nov 25, 2025
How a clearer, more consistent rewrite of sensitive communications became far easier.
Nov 18, 2025
The quick tests that reveal who’s ready for work and who’s still in student mode.
Nov 11, 2025
The hidden habits that turn AI hype into real returns.
Nov 4, 2025
Building businesses that outlast the buzz
Oct 28, 2025
Implications for business from rapid progress in maths and the sciences.
Oct 21, 2025
How humans and AI redefine the boundaries of innovation.
Oct 14, 2025
The Rise of Purpose-Built Reasoning Machines
Oct 7, 2025
Forget the focus on AI bubbles and go to where the efficiency gains are hiding.
Sep 30, 2025
Why AI impresses us less over time and what business leaders should focus on instead.
Sep 23, 2025
With uncertainty about the effectiveness of AI, focus on the one metric certain to move the needle.
Sep 16, 2025
What Declining Trust in AI Means for Business Adoption.
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Sep 9, 2025
Real gains come when leaders link automation to growth, not when they shave a few hours off routine tasks.
Sep 2, 2025
Buyers now control the process. Here’s how entrepreneurs can stay relevant and scale.
Aug 26, 2025
While Dubai and China push forward, high energy costs and slow adoption threaten to leave European businesses behind.
Aug 19, 2025
What seven decades of AI’s rises and falls teach us about surviving the next downturn.
Aug 12, 2025
The history of email shows that technology adoption is slow and need not threaten company survival.
Aug 5, 2025
Will a billion agents or a billion robots have a bigger impact on our lives?
Jul 29, 2025
The easier it is to generate a proof of concept, the quicker the pivot to demonstrating value.
Jul 22, 2025
From publish-or-perish academia to enterprise AI pilots, quantity wins the funding while quality pays the price.
Jul 15, 2025
Big-firm hiring freezes shrink the pipeline. What SMEs can expect and how to beat the crunch.
Jul 8, 2025
A guide to making generative AI productive while avoiding the cognitive debt it can create.
