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"Sales organizations that provide sellers with AI-enabled next best actions are 2.6x more likely to achieve commercial growth" The PR lead from a Vegas Gartner discussion earlier this year. Wayhey, let's all go out and get AI'd up. Well, not quite. For there&

@iamjasongibson I can’t make this stuff up. #professor #highereducation #college #midterm ♬ Piano famous song Chopin Deep deep clear beauty - RYOpianoforte All hail Jason Gibson. There's a fast-sprouting trope right now of academics catching out students using AI on tests, coursework and exams. The above chap shines

Been asked to expand a touch on my recent post on the enduring power of Sales in an AI world. Where I riffed on a cubrep who didn't choose sales despite AI, he chose it because of AI. Detailing what precisely can set us apart as the human

"While sales has often been overlooked and associated with a sleazy, wheeler-dealer stereotype, its dependence on human interaction could mean it is a career path future-proofed in the age of AI." I've blogged on this aplenty down the past couple years. Think 'aura', '

'AI is far from replicating savoir-faire, the ‘backbone’ of many high-fashion brands' Headhunter Floriane de Saint Pierre, 'responsible for placing top talent at luxury houses' as per FT précis 2026-07-03 I devour many a piece on AI impact in certain sectors. Especially when a direction of

A recent University of Southern California study suggests AI is making us all sound - and think - the same. A different type of 'flattening' to that blogged on earlier this year, but emanates from the same source of super-promptness. What does a buyer do when faced with

Any help with LLMs for writing will make you sound like a journalist, stripped of all idiosyncracy, which, for many, is not a bad thing. This is structural, the way statistical machines operate. LLMs are bland, dull, & devoid of personality. https://t.co/D78r07JQor — Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) June

My recent post remembering the gorilla of an objection growing from the first use of an Enterprise system to run a business still swills around my mind. Where I mentioned in passing, vibecoding. I now discover those Private Equity masters of the universe love a bit of that. The FT

My worry for the AI matchmaker thesis is that singles don't want realistic, good-on-paper matches. Customers hire me for matchmaking precisely because I deliver unrealistic matches they can’t get elsewhere. AI pairing sounds nice, but actually think about the UX. Would you… — Blaine Anderson (@datingbyblaine) April 15,