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The U.S. market has never been more focused on one single bet—but AI’s payoff will likely take decades

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The U.S. market has never been more focused on one single bet—but AI’s payoff will likely take decades

admin October 22, 2026 0

Five decades of digital innovation delivered adoption without productivity. Ming Lu argues AI's payoff will follow the...

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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says he writes just one email a week, if that—because it ‘feels like work’ and is ‘inferior’ to just texting his staff

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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says he writes just one email a week, if that—because it ‘feels like work’ and is ‘inferior’ to just texting his staff

admin October 15, 2026 0

Airbnb's billionaire CEO Brian Chesky can barely remember the last email he wrote. “I don’t know if...

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Why Asia’s AI moment depends on leaders, not tools

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Why Asia’s AI moment depends on leaders, not tools

admin October 13, 2026 0

Accenture's Ryoji Sekido argues the deference that slows change elsewhere can speed up AI adoption—if leaders learn...

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The paradox at the core of the AI revolution: The faster we innovate, the slower we grow

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The paradox at the core of the AI revolution: The faster we innovate, the slower we grow

admin October 12, 2026 0

Why AI adoption isn't boosting productivity: organizational complexity, rising overhead, and slow enterprise diffusion.

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Japanese companies are paying older workers to sit by a window and do nothing—while Western CEOs demand super-AI productivity just to keep your job

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Japanese companies are paying older workers to sit by a window and do nothing—while Western CEOs demand super-AI productivity just to keep your job

admin September 24, 2026 0

About half of Japanese firms have an “old guy who does nothing.” Colleagues say they take many...

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Like Jamie Dimon, Databricks CEO hates days with too many meetings. He says it means he gets nothing done and he’s just got ‘monkeys on his back’

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Like Jamie Dimon, Databricks CEO hates days with too many meetings. He says it means he gets nothing done and he’s just got ‘monkeys on his back’

admin September 24, 2026 0

Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi joins CEOs from JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon to United’s Scott Kirby in calling out...

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Like Jamie Dimon, AT&T CEO says if you attend a meeting, you need to show up prepared—he ‘craves’ people who don’t just sit back and observe

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Like Jamie Dimon, AT&T CEO says if you attend a meeting, you need to show up prepared—he ‘craves’ people who don’t just sit back and observe

admin September 6, 2026 0

AT&T’s John Stankey and JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon agree: Meetings should be worth everyone’s time—and attendees shouldn’t be...

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Canva’s productivity push is starting to gain traction—and in Southeast Asia, it’s happening on phones

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Canva’s productivity push is starting to gain traction—and in Southeast Asia, it’s happening on phones

admin September 3, 2026 0

Canva’s users have made 4.5 billion presentations and 1.4 billion documents, the first hard numbers on its...

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Despite CEOs like Elon Musk pushing in-person office work, a major study of 7,000 workers says remote employees are just as connected—and more engaged

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Despite CEOs like Elon Musk pushing in-person office work, a major study of 7,000 workers says remote employees are just as connected—and more engaged

admin August 21, 2026 0

The research found little evidence that remote workers felt less connected to colleagues or workplace culture—despite what...

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Siemens CEO keeps his inbox below 100 with 2-letter replies—and has no recurring meetings with direct reports: ‘I don’t need to entertain people’

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Siemens CEO keeps his inbox below 100 with 2-letter replies—and has no recurring meetings with direct reports: ‘I don’t need to entertain people’

admin August 17, 2026 0

CEO of $256 billion Siemens, Roland Busch, replies to emails with just ‘OK’ or ‘No.’ Anything longer,...

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