The AI skills gap: why power users are pulling away
AI multiplies the skill you bring to it, so your power users can keep pulling ahead. Why counting logins misses that gap, and what to measure instead.
AI multiplies the skill you bring to it, so your power users can keep pulling ahead. Why counting logins misses that gap, and what to measure instead.
Beyond a certain point, more intelligence stops helping at work. Judgement, persistence and follow-through decide who gets results, so hire for those.
Before you buy an 'AI-powered' feature, ask to see it with the AI switched off. Three vendor questions that separate real AI tools from a new sticker.
OpenAI and Claude now answer with charts you can touch. The prompting skills gap was partly the text box's fault. How to judge an AI tool from now on.
Small firms can't hire and won't fire, so the team you have is the team you'll grow with. That calls for designing the work, not running more job ads.
Apple's Siri delay is a useful test for your AI roadmap. A good wait names the failure it fixes and proves it. A stall just books another review date.
Executives say AI saves them hours a week; staff say it saves nothing. That gap measures how well bad news travels upward in a business, not the tool.
T-shaped hiring assumed humans did the work. Now that AI does the first pass, hire people who can frame problems, direct systems and judge the output.
OpenAI just signed McKinsey, BCG, Accenture and Capgemini to sell its agents. Most AI consulting is training in disguise. Here is what to buy instead.
An AI coding agent deleted an entire production database in nine seconds. The failure was permissions, not a rogue AI, and least privilege is the fix.