A New Blueprint

How AI Can Help Build More Intentional Meetings

Meetings should be meaningful and effective. Technology can help.

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Work Trend Index Special Report

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Generative AI

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Work Trend Index Special Report

 A colorful illustration of people and elements like tubes and arrows forming a kind of company “machine” that is getting activated  

Editor's Pick

A New Blueprint

How AI Can Help Build More Intentional Meetings

Meetings should be meaningful and effective. Technology can help.

Quick Read

Trending

Podcast

Generative AI

Generative AI

AI will revolutionize work. Learn how

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Research

AI Data Drop: The 11-by-11 Tipping Point

Podcast

What All Leaders Can Learn from the Ways AI Is Revolutionizing Medicine

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Reinvention

How Business Leaders Are Using Copilot Right Now

Practical Guidance

The WorkLab Guides

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AI + Field Service

How AI Can Give Field Service Technicians a Boost

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AI + Customer Service

How AI Can Empower Customer Service Agents

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AI + Sellers

How Sellers Can Use AI to Better Engage with Customers

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AI + Marketers

How Marketers Can Use AI to Unlock Breakthrough Creativity

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Leadership

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  1. How Business Leaders Are Using Copilot Right Now
  2. How Copilot Turns Everyone Into A Manager
  3. Author Kate O’Neill on Why Leaders Should Embrace Optimism amid Uncertainty

Culture

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  1. AI Data Drop: What the Future Workforce Really Cares About
  2. What New Terms Like ‘Goblin Mode’ Reveal about Work
  3. What People Want in a Job Right Now

Innovation

  1. How AI Can Help Build More Intentional Meetings
  2. Five Key Principles for Implementing an AI Strategy Across Your Organization
  3. Our Year with Copilot: What Microsoft Has Learned About AI at Work

Collaboration

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  1. When It Comes to AI, Don’t Build 'Islands of Intelligence'
  2. With Copilot, Every Meeting Is a ‘Digital Artifact’
  3. The Key Ingredient in Every Copilot Conversation

Performance

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  1. AI Data Drop: The 11-by-11 Tipping Point
  2. How AI Can Help You Have Smarter, More Thoughtful Conversations
  3. To Build AI Into Your Work Habits, Picture a Pyramid

Wellbeing

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  1. These 5 New Habits Will Help You Get the Most Out of AI
  2. How This ESPN Leader Works Now: A Paper Planner, Next-Gen AI, and a ‘Snow White’ Garden
  3. How I Hybrid: Meditation, the Perfect Pen, and Drawing Boundaries
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