Technology

AI Agents Will Not Replace Managers. They Will Expose the Ones Who Were Never Managing.
- Larry Brooks
- Strategy, Technology
- 04 May, 2026
An operations manager at a logistics company spent 70% of his time on three activities: checking task completion across teams, compiling status reports for leadership, and routing work to the appropr
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The AI Agent Skills Gap Is Creating a Two-Tier Job Market. Which Tier Are You On?
- Larry Brooks
- Strategy, Technology
- 23 Apr, 2026
Two job postings. Same company. Same department. One requires "experience deploying and managing AI agents in production environments." Salary: $185,000. The other requires "strong communication and
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We Tested 7 AI Agent Platforms. Only 2 Were Ready for Production.
- Larry Brooks
- Software, Technology
- 20 Apr, 2026
Every AI agent platform promises the same thing: build powerful agents without the complexity. Deploy in hours, not months. Enterprise-ready out of the box. We tested seven of them against real produ
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AI Agent Security: What Happens When an Autonomous System Has Access to Your Business Data?
- Larry Brooks
- Technology, Strategy
- 16 Apr, 2026
An AI agent that cannot access your systems is useless. An AI agent with unrestricted access to your systems is dangerous. The entire value proposition of autonomous agents lives in the space between
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What Are AI Agents and Why Is Every Fortune 500 Company Building Them Right Now?
- Larry Brooks
- AI Automation, Technology
- 02 Apr, 2026
An AI agent is not a chatbot. It is not a workflow automation. It is not a smarter search bar. An AI agent is a software system that receives a goal, plans its own approach, makes decisions, takes ac
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The 5 AI Agent Skills Your Team Needs to Develop Before 2027 (Or Risk Irrelevance)
- Larry Brooks
- Strategy, Technology
- 26 Mar, 2026
Within 18 months, every organization will either be building AI agents, managing AI agents, or competing against organizations that do both. The skills required to work effectively with autonomous AI
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The Executive Director Who Cut Grant Reporting Time by 80% Using AI
- Larry Brooks
- AI Automation, Technology
- 21 Mar, 2026
Three days. That is how long it took Maria Torres, executive director of a regional youth development nonprofit, to compile her monthly grant reports. Three days of pulling data from four different s
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What Is the Difference Between AI Automation and Regular Automation?
- Larry Brooks
- Technology, AI Automation
- 21 Feb, 2026
"We already have automation" is something we hear regularly from organizations that have invested in Zapier workflows, email drip sequences, or scheduled social media posts. They are not wrong. They
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Stop Calling It 'Digital Transformation.' Call It What It Is: Survival.
- Larry Brooks
- Strategy, Technology
- 11 Feb, 2026
"Digital transformation" is a boardroom euphemism. It sounds optional. Strategic. Something you will get to in Q3 when the budget cycle resets and the leadership team has bandwidth for another initia
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The Hidden ROI of AI Automation Nobody Talks About: Your Team's Morale
- Larry Brooks
- Strategy, Technology
- 17 Jan, 2026
Every conversation about AI automation ROI centers on the same metrics: time saved, cost reduced, revenue increased. These are important. They are also incomplete. The ROI that most organizations un
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The Window for Early AI Adoption Is Closing. Here's What Happens After.
- Larry Brooks
- Strategy, Technology
- 21 Oct, 2025
There is a window in every technology cycle where early adopters build an advantage that late adopters can never fully close. It happened with email marketing. It happened with search optimization. I
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How a Healthcare Practice Added 200 Patients Without Adding Staff
- Larry Brooks
- AI Automation, Technology
- 07 Oct, 2025
When a regional healthcare practice set a goal of adding 200 new patients in a single quarter, the operations manager calculated they would need two new front desk hires and a part-time marketing coo
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