The Track
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How I use AI to help my boss prepare for board meetings
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What is Web3 (and why should I care)?
Everything you need to know to talk about Web3 at your next cocktail hour.
Free trial vs. freemium: Which product-led growth tactic is right for you?
Have you ever set up a free trial to test drive a product before you bought it? We bet you have (and you might have even forgotten to cancel it after the week was up – oops).
In our workshop Driving Product-Led Growth, industry guru Wes Bush teaches you to use “try before you buy” tactics – like free trials, freemium, and demo modes – to capture customers long before they swipe their credit card.
Here, with Wes’ help, we share an easy-to-use framework for picking the tactic that’s right for your business.
3 steps to uncover your real competitors (hint: they may not be who you think)
April Dunford is a product positioning expert who helps executives zero in on the real competitive alternatives to their product.
In this post, we’ll share some of her tips.
4 proven business strategies from NYU Stern Prof. Scott Galloway
Growing a business can be rough. Even after you’ve drafted a masterful business plan and secured enough capital to see it to fruition, you’re still facing an uphill battle.
In fact, 65 percent of businesses fail within their first 10 years.
So how do you beat the odds? You can start by leveraging these four winning concepts NYU Stern Professor Scott Galloway lays out in his upcoming Business Strategy Sprint.
We’ll break them down.
How I use AI to help my boss prepare for board meetings
We’re not shy about sharing our favorite AI use case: Leveraging it as a thought partner. But not all LLMs are created equally – so Section’s Chief of Staff to the COO, Ana, is sharing how they rank as thought partners for one of her most strategic use cases: Preparing the quarterly board deck.
How we used AI to improve course quality by 20%
One common misperception about AI is that it’s only good for making processes quicker. Education Product Lead, Kyra Atekwana, shared how it also improved our content quality by 20%.
Why most organizations aren’t ready to deploy AI
In September, we re-ran our AI Proficiency Survey to over 5,000 knowledge workers across the US, UK, and Canada. Our biggest takeaway: The knowledge workforce is vastly unprepared for an AI-augmented future.
How the Royal Family’s AI-powered mental health agent overcame privacy concerns
Most orgs feel unready for the challenges that Gen AI brings to risk management. Yet many AI applications will have to navigate the line between user value and user privacy. So we sat down with specialist, Brian Kolodny, to understand how he traversed matters of privacy when building a mental health bot for the Royal Family’s foundation.
