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Why AI Spending Works

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Dec 23, 2025

Why AI Spending Works

How an AI investment bubble lays the foundation for what businesses want.

Simon Maughan
Simon Maughan
The Graduates Worth Betting On

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Nov 18, 2025

The Graduates Worth Betting On

The quick tests that reveal who’s ready for work and who’s still in student mode.

Simon Maughan
Simon Maughan
Creativity at Scale

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Oct 21, 2025

Creativity at Scale

How humans and AI redefine the boundaries of innovation.

Simon Maughan
Simon Maughan
Precision, Not Power

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Oct 14, 2025

Precision, Not Power

The Rise of Purpose-Built Reasoning Machines

Simon Maughan
Simon Maughan
That Don’t Impress Me Much

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Sep 30, 2025

That Don’t Impress Me Much

Why AI impresses us less over time and what business leaders should focus on instead.

Simon Maughan
Simon Maughan
Your Top Priority Automation

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Sep 23, 2025

Your Top Priority Automation

With uncertainty about the effectiveness of AI, focus on the one metric certain to move the needle.

Simon Maughan
Simon Maughan
Time Equals Trust

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Sep 16, 2025

Time Equals Trust

What Declining Trust in AI Means for Business Adoption.

Simon Maughan
Simon Maughan
Automation is a CEO’s Job

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Sep 9, 2025

Automation is a CEO’s Job

Real gains come when leaders link automation to growth, not when they shave a few hours off routine tasks.

Simon Maughan
Simon Maughan
The End of Old-School Selling

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Sep 2, 2025

The End of Old-School Selling

Buyers now control the process. Here’s how entrepreneurs can stay relevant and scale.

Simon Maughan
Simon Maughan
AI Is Getting Cheaper, Smarter, Greener

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Aug 26, 2025

AI Is Getting Cheaper, Smarter, Greener

While Dubai and China push forward, high energy costs and slow adoption threaten to leave European businesses behind.

Simon Maughan
Simon Maughan
Beyond the Hype Cycle

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Aug 19, 2025

Beyond the Hype Cycle

What seven decades of AI’s rises and falls teach us about surviving the next downturn.

Simon Maughan
Simon Maughan
Culture Will Decide When We Adopt AI

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Aug 12, 2025

Culture Will Decide When We Adopt AI

The history of email shows that technology adoption is slow and need not threaten company survival.

Simon Maughan
Simon Maughan
Our Robot Future is Closer Than We Think

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Aug 5, 2025

Our Robot Future is Closer Than We Think

Will a billion agents or a billion robots have a bigger impact on our lives?

Simon Maughan
Simon Maughan
Proof-of-Concept, Graveyard of Ideas

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Jul 22, 2025

Proof-of-Concept, Graveyard of Ideas

From publish-or-perish academia to enterprise AI pilots, quantity wins the funding while quality pays the price.

Simon Maughan
Simon Maughan
AI’s Double-Edged Sword: Smarter Workers, Shallower Students

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Jul 8, 2025

AI’s Double-Edged Sword: Smarter Workers, Shallower Students

A guide to making generative AI productive while avoiding the cognitive debt it can create.

Simon Maughan
Simon Maughan
Why Evals Are the New User Stories for AI

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Jun 24, 2025

Why Evals Are the New User Stories for AI

Build trust, curb hallucinations and promote your LLM apps with a rigorous, repeatable evaluation playbook.

Simon Maughan
Simon Maughan
The Manager as an Agent: A Future Closer Than You Think

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Jun 17, 2025

The Manager as an Agent: A Future Closer Than You Think

Everworker’s CEO says AI will destroy jobs. Omdia disagrees. Where does the truth lie?

Simon Maughan
Simon Maughan
How to Automate the Small Business Sales Process

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Jun 10, 2025

How to Automate the Small Business Sales Process

Accelerate the time from lead to proposal in a few clicks.

Simon Maughan
Simon Maughan
How AI Could Cure Healthcare if it isn’t Blocked at Birth

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May 20, 2025

How AI Could Cure Healthcare if it isn’t Blocked at Birth

Inside the coming battle between artificial intelligence and America’s trillion-dollar industries.

Simon Maughan
Simon Maughan
The Taste Test Economy

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May 6, 2025

The Taste Test Economy

In the AI Era, Only a Working Product Will Win You the Client

Simon Maughan
Simon Maughan
Can AI Fix Anything?

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Apr 22, 2025

Can AI Fix Anything?

Why outcomes, data depth and brand still matter more than the algorithm.

Simon Maughan
Simon Maughan
Your Business Needs an Abundant Mindset

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Apr 15, 2025

Your Business Needs an Abundant Mindset

Rethinking Jobs, Experiences and Opportunity in the Age of Digital Plenty.

Simon Maughan
Simon Maughan
Why Buyers Still Say No to Better Tech

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Apr 8, 2025

Why Buyers Still Say No to Better Tech

Even when AI outperforms humans, selling change means overcoming the biggest obstacle of all.

Simon Maughan
Simon Maughan
AI is My New Favourite Teammate

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Apr 1, 2025

AI is My New Favourite Teammate

I used ChatGPT for an end-to-end marketing workflow and loved every minute of it

Simon Maughan
Simon Maughan
How to get paid for building new features

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Mar 25, 2025

How to get paid for building new features

Segregating your client base is the key to scaling services.

Simon Maughan
Simon Maughan
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