How to Prompt AI Like a Conversation, Not a Wish List
Iterative prompting means treating the first AI answer as a draft you steer. Here’s a four-move loop, a worked exchange, a restart prompt and a five-question test for when to stop prompting and check.
Cognitive Debt: How to Tell If AI Is Quietly Eroding Your Thinking
Cognitive debt is the risk that AI keeps the work getting done while you practice less of the capability underneath it. Here is a three-question check, a rule for when to draft first, and a weekly rep to keep the skill in use.
The Transformation Journey to a Frontier Firm, One Workflow at a Time
Microsoft coined ‘Frontier Firm’, but a company doesn’t move through its phases as one block. Here’s how to place each workflow, test it before it moves up, and run a quarter that leaves a record.
From Skills to Impact: Empowering the AI-Ready Workforce
A trained skill only shows up as results when it has a task to live in and someone reinforcing it. Here is a five-question test that finds the broken link, with fixes by role and a way to measure use, persistence and impact.
Your First 90 Days as a New Manager: How to Use AI Well
A new manager’s first 90 days are for learning what no document holds. Here’s a phase-by-phase plan, three prompts you can paste, and a clear line between what AI prepares and what you decide.
Candidate Rejection Emails With AI: Kind, Fast, and Safe to Send
Rejection emails pile up because each one feels like a small ethics problem. Here’s how to match the message to how far the candidate got, let AI draft it, and keep the reason and the record in human hands.
AI Executive Productivity: How the Job Changes by Level
Executives, managers and individual contributors use AI for different jobs. A level-by-level guide to what each should try first, how to check it, and how to tell it’s working.
Executives Using Microsoft 365 Copilot: Who Prompts, Who Checks, Who Decides
When an executive works with Copilot through an EA or chief of staff, two people and two sets of access are involved. A filled delegation agreement, three prompts, and a checking routine.
How to Write a Handover Document With AI (Before You Step Away)
Most handover documents list where things live and skip the judgment calls that keep the work running. Here’s how to use AI as the interviewer, and how to test the result before you leave.
Microsoft Copilot ROI: What Organizations Can Realistically Expect
A seat pays for itself with a modest amount of net time recovered, so the real risk sits in how many seats are still used in month three. Current list prices, a worked payback example, and how to label the evidence.
