AI Agent Hacks That Work (and the Ones to Skip): A Sorted, Checked-Against-the-Docs Guide
A sorted, checked-against-the-docs guide to popular AI agent hacks: which ones work, which come with caveats, which to skip, and a scored first-week plan.
Better Prompts for Better AI Results
A symptom-first guide to weak AI answers: match what you see in the output to the missing piece in your prompt, with three before-and-after rewrites, a diagnostic prompt and a pre-send checklist.
Copilot Dashboards From Excel and SharePoint: Prompts, Checks and Sharing Rules
Copilot can build a dashboard from your Excel data in minutes. The work that matters is choosing snapshot or live, checking the numbers, and controlling who can open the file.
How Can Organizations Turn Collaboration Into Their Greatest AI Advantage?
How shared workflows, shared labels for AI output and a monthly compare-notes session turn individual AI use into an organization-wide advantage, with a workflow card, register and scored health check.
How to Do First Principles Thinking Using AI (With Prompts You Can Actually Use)
Six copy-ready prompts that use AI to question a workflow before you automate it: name the job, sort the assumptions, argue against it, redesign from a blank page, restore the constraints and pressure-test the result.
Five AI Agent Use Cases Worth Piloting This Quarter (And Three That Aren’t Ready Yet)
Five AI agent pilots matched to the roles that own them, three that aren’t ready and why, a six-question fit test, and a 30-day pilot plan with a filled-in permissions sheet.
How to Use Claude’s Chat Search and Memory to Build on Previous Context
How Claude’s chat search and memory differ, the prompts that make each work, how to keep client contexts apart, how memory carries into Cowork, and the controls to review, pause or delete it.
How to Adopt an AI-First Mindset: Start With the First Move
An AI-first mindset is a change in your first move, not a belief. A four-step loop, a scored audit, an if-then plan and prompts to paste.
What Should AI Do? What Still Needs You?
Split any task into steps and sort each into material, judgment or commitment. A manager’s sheet, role table, check design and prompts to paste.
How to Communicate and Influence Better With AI (Prepare the Listener, Not Just the Draft)
Influence is mostly preparation. Use AI as the skeptical listener: a one-page brief, the hardest objection, message versions and a rehearsal, with prompts you can paste.
