Adam Probolsky

Forget job loss and financial markets disruption, I am most worried that a bunch of these are primarily for people to use as a substitute for people to people relationships.

The Big Reveal is Dead Unless you are Apple, you don't get to wait for an event or webinar three weeks from now. Just push the update and tell the world what you've got. We don't have the patience for it anymore. And things are moving so fast, the next thing could be hours or days away.

Now more than ever @levie you need to allow us to create Google Docs, etc with full public permissions, no login. Otherwise we have to leave the @Box ecosystem to take advantage of @GeminiApp

At this point the entire Iranian leadership is just three Mossad agents who don’t know about each other, so they keep on playing the game. (Joke from Israel just now)

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Here are highlights from a special visit to Israel, marked by productive conversations and strengthened cooperation. May our partnership continue to grow in the times to come!

gigafucked: - grammarly - calendly - miro - retool - webflow - langchain - writer - harvey - glean - expedia - monday fucked: - accenture - intuit - notion - jasper - canva - alphasense - postman - airtable - talkdesk - sierra - zapier - replit - solace probably fucked: - cursor - pilot - clay - mercor naively seems fucked but so competent / plugged in they seem to be figuring it out on the fly anyway: - linear

As researchers we say we "do employee surveys" But that means more than writing a questionnaire, sending an email, and writing a report We also "do" organizational leadership and internal communications strategy It was one of our forward-thinking city clients who asked for onboarding surveys - it opened our eyes to the benefits of the practice Detailed recommendations in our blog post

Adam Probolsky of Probolsky Research then presented on his firm’s findings to the council. “You are not in a very dissimilar situation than many cities in California that are doing a great job of managing their resources but are in need of more,” he said. In The Reporter (Vacaville)

There is something very smart about this automated email outreach. And I am not even sure if HubSpot or Alexandrea know what it is. People look for connection, reasons to relate, context. The pitch is generic. But, Denver, CO - which may not be purpose added - engages a part of your brain that nothing else in the email would trigger. When we see a place, we may have a memory tied to it, we might imagine a map, and we put a demographic filter on the person associated with it. All these things take you away from the message, but that’s a good thing. It makes a personal connection. If you do cold email outreach, try it. Experiment with it. Your response rate will go up.

The fact that Apple has delayed AI role out again is why I’m betting on @sama and @OpenAI Mass reshapes the geometry, perfection is a trap Spend money, break things, repeat

Companies are repeating an old mistake. Last time it was foolish, this time it will be fatal. Corporate America has a new favorite hire - the Chief AI Officer. Something like 26% of big companies have one. And there is a frenzy in higher ed to offer Chief AI Officer certificate programs - see Georgia Tech, Carnegie Mellon, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Cornell, George Mason, and the University of Miami. There’s just one problem. The position is absurd. You cannot isolate AI in a single executive suite. We’ve watched this movie before. Back then it happened in slow motion. But. Time and technology have collapsed into each other. When social media was new Companies panicked when social media became a thing. So they did what organizations do when confronted with something massive and unfamiliar - they created a title. The “Head of Social Media” was born, and suddenly one person - often a nepo baby, siloed from the rest of the marketing and communications departments - was responsible for figuring out the entire digital and social footprint for the enterprise. Companies ran parallel marketing operations - traditional over here, digital over there. It took years for business to realize that social media isn’t a separate discipline. Everyone needs to be their own Chief AI Officer Every employee has the tools to make dramatic advancements by building something with AI. There is no need for an AI figurehead. Every leader needs to ask, “How can we ensure that every employee in the organization becomes AI-curious, AI-fluent, and AI-capable?” And then do it. Those that don’t will fail. Dr. Adam Probolsky is president of Probolsky Research and Senior Research Fellow at the Drucker School of Management, Claremont Graduate University

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This is relevant in so many ways. If you are partnered, working, or considering a new business arrangement with someone, make sure they give a sh*t about the outcome. Whether the money is irrelevant to them or they are callous a-holes, if they don't care, walk away.

If you are a knowledge worker and don’t live in constant fear that you are just rearranging the deck chairs, it may already be too late.

Announcing a Probolsky Research matching grant for libraries. The @ALALibrary has a Libraries Transform Communities Engagement Grant available and @ProbolskyResearch will match this grant + offer in-kind services in the form of a community workshop, or other qualitative research. If your library plans to pursue the ALA grant, contact me for more information. We are excited to partner with and support your efforts to build human connections in your community.