Chief Innovation Officer. WSJ bestselling author of "Fearless Innovation". Tweets are my own.

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Joined June 2015
AI is changing tasks inside jobs faster than many job titles change. Leaders need to see what is removed, accelerated, or newly created before making workforce decisions. #FutureOfWork #WorkforceStrategy #AITransformation
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If AI can help produce the final answer, universities need better ways to see the thinking behind it. Reasoning, revision, and judgment may become stronger evidence of learning. #HigherEdAI #FutureOfLearning #EducationLeadership
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Inside Higher Ed reports colleges are adding AI requirements across disciplines. Leaders now have to decide what belongs in degree outcomes and what should be refreshed more often as tools change. What should every graduate know about AI? #HigherEdAI #EducationLeadership
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A curriculum can take years to change. A job can change in months. As AI reshapes work, employers need a faster way to identify which skills are gaining value. #FutureOfWork #FutureSkills
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AI capability becomes strategic when knowledge moves across the organization. Leaders should track where useful use cases emerge, connect those teams and spread what works. The advantage comes from how quickly the enterprise can learn from itself. #EnterpriseAI
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AI culture depends on what happens after an employee raises an idea. Clear review criteria help leaders identify useful experiments, share learning and stop weak ideas without discouraging participation. Can your organization recognize an idea worth scaling? #EnterpriseAI
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Workforce planning cannot wait for job descriptions to catch up. Leaders need to track how tasks, judgment and accountability are shifting inside each role, then update skills and performance measures around that change. How often are you reviewing the work itself? #FutureOfWork
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AI pilots should earn the right to scale. Leaders need clear evidence, accountable sponsors and a process for stopping weak experiments early. That discipline gives intrapreneurs room to test ideas without turning innovation into chaos. #EnterpriseAI #AITransformation
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AI may flatten management layers, but it will raise the value of managers who understand the work. They turn strategy into decisions, redesign workflows and help teams adopt AI with clarity. Their judgment will determine what scales. #EnterpriseAI #Leadership #AI
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High AI adoption can still produce weak business results. Scattered experiments divide talent, funding, and attention. Strong leaders focus on a few high-value workflows, assign their best people, and scale only after proving impact. #EnterpriseAI #Leadership #AI
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48% introduced AI without redesigning the work around it. Only 12% redesigned at scale with a new operating model. Better tools inside unchanged workflows will only go so far. Has your operating model caught up? #EnterpriseAI #AITransformation #FutureOfWork #OperatingModel
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73% of companies use AI across most business processes, but only 10% say it is core to operations. The gap is no longer adoption. It is readiness. Are your systems and workflows prepared? #EnterpriseAI #AITransformation #FutureOfWork #BusinessLeadership #Innovation
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3 in 4 executives admit their AI strategy is more for show than guidance. Only 23% see ROI from AI agents. Yet AI super-users are 3x more likely to get promoted. Where is the real AI progress in your org, and is that where resources are going? #AILeadership #AdaptOrVanish
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Financial pressure and AI transformation are arriving on campuses at the same time. Budget decisions made right now shape how far any AI strategy can reach. Are those two conversations happening in the same room at your institution? #HigherEd #AdaptOrVanish
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Only 55% of university presidents say their institution is responding appropriately to AI. Nearly half have admitted they are behind. The students enrolled right now are not waiting for that number to improve. #HigherEd #AcademicLeadership #AdaptOrVanish
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Only 17% of US students believe their instructors can guide them on AI. One in four at ban-AI schools still use it weekly. The ban removes the institution from the conversation, not the behavior. What has your campus done to close that gap? #HigherEd #AdaptOrVanish
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Most campuses name AI as a top priority. Only 37% are equipping the faculty and staff who have to make it real. Strategy that skips the people rarely survives contact with a classroom. Is your AI budget funding tools or the people who use them? #HigherEd #AdaptOrVanish
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Fewer than 40% of institutions have an AI acceptable use policy. That vacuum doesn't stay empty. Students and faculty fill it with their own guesses. Does your campus have an AI policy your students could actually name? #HigherEd #AIGovernance #AdaptOrVanish
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28% of students say their assessments reflect what AI-era jobs will demand. 37% say none or very few do. Faculty AI intent in the US dropped 9 points while students use it daily. Has your institution acknowledged the gap yet? #HigherEducation #AdaptOrVanish
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