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Making AI Work: Leadership, Lab, and Crowd

Everyone is focused on buying AI tools. Nobody is talking about the organizational structure that makes them actually work.

Reporting by One Useful Thing (Ethan Mollick) 1 min brief
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The KeyNews take

Why it matters

Companies are failing at AI adoption not because of technology limitations, but because they lack the proper organizational framework combining top-down leadership, dedicated experimentation labs, and grassroots employee engagement.

The key facts

3 to know

  1. Three-pillar framework: Leadership, Lab, and Crowd

  2. Organizational structure as key success factor for AI deployment

  3. Focus on internal adoption methodology rather than tool selection

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One Useful Thing (Ethan Mollick)oneusefulthing.org

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