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How I use AI to help my boss prepare for board meetings
Prioritize the right metrics for your 2024 product roadmap
It's challenging to craft a product roadmap that balances different (sometimes competing) visions for the product. Get a deep dive into how we prioritize our roadmap using Gibson Biddle's framework for growth, engagement, and monetization.
Your privacy guide to AI chatbots
We hear concerns about AI’s privacy policies every day, so let’s dig in. Here’s our guide to how the most popular LLMs treat your data (as of October 2023).
Think like the company disrupting you
At a recent offsite, our CEO Greg posed this question: “When Section is disrupted, what will our competitor do to make us seem obsolete”? Check out our framework for getting ahead of your future competition.
7 ways AI will completely change the way you work
AI will change the way you work, from how you write copy to how you make business-critical decisions. Here are 7 strategic implications every leader needs to be aware of as we enter the age of AI.
How Squishmallows became the top-selling toy of 2022
What do Lady Gaga, Warren Buffett, and your eight-year-old nephew have in common? They all collect Squishmallows.
But if you’re not a collector, you might be scratching your head and thinking, “Why are these run-of-the-mill stuffed animals so popular?”
In this post, we dive into how the viral brand was able to break $100M in sales with a great marketing strategy (using lessons from Scott Galloway, Marcus Collins, and more).
Why did HBO Max rebrand to Max? 4 insights
The internet responded to the HBO Max rebrand with an overwhelming, "Why?" So we dug in to find out the strategy behind their confusing move.
Why most corporate learning offerings suck (and how to fix it)
What percentage of employees actually use the skills they learn in L&D programs at their jobs?
Twelve percent.
If these numbers sound rough, that’s because they are...
The three skills that actually matter to business growth
Do you ever look at a company like Google or Netflix and think, “I know we could be that successful – if only we had their people on our team”?
The bad news: It’s impossibly expensive to recruit talent from the top tech companies.
The good news: You can develop this type of talent in-house, if you zero in on the skills that actually matter to drive business growth.
To help you, our research team looked at 100 of today’s top-performing organizations and identified the business skills that matter.
These are the skills that should be your top priority in talent development. So let’s get started.