Insights on AI, Leadership & Productivity
Practical perspectives for senior leaders on AI productivity, accountability, and team performance. Written by Chris McIntyre, CSP.
A CEO told me recently that his company had "fully adopted AI." I asked how he knew. He said they'd hit 94% license activation, everyone had been through training, and usage was up and to the right. I...
Here's a pattern I've started warning executives about, because almost no one sees it coming. You bring in AI to save time. Six months later, you're busier than ever, and you can't quite explain why.
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Sit in on almost any leadership meeting and watch what it produces. Sixty minutes of good discussion, a few heads nodding, a vague sense that something was agreed. Then everyone walks out and reconstr...
Every executive I work with has tried to "get good at AI" the same way. They collect prompts. They save a swipe file of clever instructions, bookmark a few threads, maybe buy a prompt pack. Three week...
Every executive I've worked with this year has asked some version of the same question. "Which AI should we actually use? ChatGPT? Claude? Copilot? Something else?"
Two years ago, the question didn't...
If you're vetting AI productivity keynote speakers for a 2026 event, you have a vetting problem.
Not a speaker shortage problem. The opposite. Your inbox is full of pitches. Every consultant on Linke...
Three years into the great work-from-anywhere experiment, the same conversation keeps showing up in my coaching sessions and my workshops. A senior leader leans forward, lowers their voice, and says s...
I’ve spent the last two years training senior leaders inside Fortune 100 companies, federal agencies, and YPO chapters on how to actually use AI. The pattern is consistent. Most executives are typing ...
If you're sitting on a half-completed conference agenda and someone just dropped "AI productivity" into the keynote slot, you have a problem. Not a real problem. A vetting problem.
Every consultant, ...