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Stop Starting From Scratch Every Time You Open AI
You know the moment. Three weeks ago you had a genuinely useful conversation with your AI tool. It helped you untangle a proposal, sharpen a ...
Is AI Destroying Your 2034 Leadership Pipeline?
Six months on from my original piece, the data is harder, and one part of the argument was incomplete. In March, I wrote a piece ...
When it Comes to AI, the Language IS the Strategy
The most consequential decision in your AI rollout will not be made by your CIO. It will be made by whoever writes the words in ...
The Setting Nobody Showed You – that might be costing you a bundle!
I’ll start with a confession. I use Fable, Claude’s biggest model, all the time, and more often than I’d like to admit I forget to ...
The AI Training Number That Has Not Moved since 2025
About forty minutes into a keynote a few months ago, a woman near the back put her hand up and asked me the question I ...
What I missed in my March Article about the leadership pipeline being wiped out by AI
Six months on, the data is harder and one part of the argument was incomplete. In March I wrote about my first day as a ...
Gen Z Is Reading the AI Risk Map Better Than You Are
Ask a twenty-four-year-old which jobs AI is going to take, and you will probably get an answer you dismiss. You should not dismiss it. They ...
Do We Really Have to Pay People to Think Now?
EY seems to think so. A few years ago I was asked to speak at a Rewards and Remuneration conference in New Zealand. They wanted ...
Australia’s AI Inflection Point: Why 2027 Will Test Every Leader With an AI Agenda
Here’s a number that should be on every leadership team’s radar, and mostly isn’t. Low AI literacy is costing Australia $18.9 billion in foregone economic ...
Australia Just Changed Course on AI. Read This Before the Board Pack Arrives.
Twelve months ago, the Productivity Commission told the Australian Government not to impose mandatory guardrails on AI. Existing laws would do. Don’t chill innovation. Two ...
Gallup Just Proved the AI Problem Was Never the AI
Forty billion dollars spent on enterprise AI. Ninety-five per cent of organizations saw no measurable impact on profit. Gallup just worked out why. And it ...
The Best Productivity Report of 2026 Could Have Been Written in 1996
I’ve just read one of the best productivity reports of 2026. Almost every word of it could have been written in 1996. Both of those ...
I asked Claude to coach me through a conversation. Then things got very weird – and a bit existential.
Last week I got pulled into a conversation with a good friend about her 15 year old daughter. I don’t have children and there’s a ...
Audio overviews, infographics, slide decks, and much more on MS Copilot
In last week’s EveryDay AI demo video, I showed you how to use Notebooks in Copilot. I look at it as a cross between projects ...
The Real AI Gap Isn’t Who’s Using It. It’s Who’s Using It Well.
84% of Australian workers use AI. 7% use it well. Nobody in your leadership team knows which number describes their team. That’s not a rhetorical ...
MS Copilot Notebooks
A little bit projects, a little bit NotebookLM. A couple of features that I like better than both. Hi, I’m Kim. I’m a Business Futurist ...
I filmed myself using Claude Cowork. Here’s what happened.
In today’s Everyday AI video, I take you on a journey with me to set up and execute two tasks in Claude Cowork. One was ...
New offerings and an EOFY Discount
I wanted to let you know about a couple of new offerings – and my 10% EOFY discount. Anything invoiced before 30 June, to be ...
MS Copilot Council Mode
Officially called the Model Council. This is truly a unique feature of Copilot and one that I quite like. Hi, I’m Kim. I’m a Business ...
I’m on Insta! Follow me. 😀
I’m on Insta! Follow me to see a more casual, more personal, and more untethered side of me. I’ll be posting #AI and #FutureofWork content, ...
MS Copilot – 1st of 4 demos
I am not a fan of Microsoft in any way, shape or form. I don’t use it unless I absolutely have to. Having said that, ...
AI Was Meant to Fix Hiring. It’s Quietly Breaking It — From Both Sides.
I spent more than 15 years as a recruitment consultant. In that time I read hundreds of thousands of CVs. That’s not a figure of ...
We need to redefine productivity
Last Sunday morning I found myself on my back patio, coffee in hand, Mount Elliot in the distance. And I’m working. I’ve got a big ...
How far in the future does this scenario play out?
Are we talking 5 years? 18 months? A week from Tuesday? Watch the video to find out. #AI #EmailAgents #DailyBriefs #Robots #CuteAustralianCattleDogs #WisprFlow #NotebookLM
Australia is waking up to AI – and beginning to panic
Are We Sleepwalking Into a Jobs Crisis? What Joe Hockey’s Warning Means for Your Career (Watch my Today Show segment in the clip above — ...
The hardest part of AI transition has nothing to do with AI
Everyone’s talking about the technology. But I’ve watched enough transitions to know: the tech is the easy part. The hard part is whether your people ...
What would you like me to cover next?
Something shifted in Australia a few months ago. It’s like the whole country woke up one morning, looked at AI, and said: “Right — I ...
Should you take a pay cut to work for a company with a better purpose or more aligned values?
I was on the Today Show last Saturday talking about exactly that – and the numbers might surprise you. According to the The Australian Financial ...
The Future-Proof Talent Model – Final Post – Earn the right to a conversation
This is the final post in my Future-Proofed Talent Model series, following the infographic above Last week I told you to fish where they swim, ...
ChatGPT’s New Image Generator – next level!
If you’ve been following me for a while, you know that I am all about Claude these days except when it comes to generating images. ...
How Great Leaders Change Lives and Build Extraordinary Teams
This woman changed my life in 1994. I was an absolutely miserable accountant, failing at every job I’d had, when I called my friend Deb ...
Fish Where the Fish Are
The best candidate for your open role may not be on SEEK. They’re probably not updating their LinkedIn profile because they’re not actively looking for ...
Must have AI Tools – Today Extra Appearance
In today’s EveryDay AI newsletter, I’m sharing this morning’s appearance on Today Extra. It was a challenge to talk about new AI tools, how they’re ...
Atlassian’s CPO/AI Move + The Communication That Still Hasn’t Happened
Atlassian Put AI Under the CPO. That Matters More Than the Layoffs. On 11 March 2026, Atlassian made global headlines for the wrong reasons. Six ...
Defining the Employee Archetype
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been refining the Future-Proof Talent Model. Not changing the thinking behind it — just honing it. Making it sharper, ...
ChatGPTs New Image Generator
If you’re like me, you’ve been frustrated with AI image generators. They get spellings wrong all the time. They are inconsistent in following the prompts. ...