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Michael Hirsch
Your AI Adoption Is Working. That's Not Enough.

Mar 23, 2026

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7 min read

Your AI Adoption Is Working. That's Not Enough.

Michael Hirsch
Michael Hirsch
The Unlock Isn't a Better Prompt

Mar 9, 2026

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7 min read

The Unlock Isn't a Better Prompt

How your setup matters more than your skills

Michael Hirsch
Michael Hirsch
The Board Game Problem

Feb 23, 2026

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8 min read

The Board Game Problem

Why showing people what AI can do doesn't make them use it

Michael Hirsch
Michael Hirsch
Follow the Money, Part 2: AI Makes It Worse

Feb 9, 2026

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7 min read

Follow the Money, Part 2: AI Makes It Worse

Michael Hirsch
Michael Hirsch
Follow the Money: Budget.xls > Strategy.ppt

Jan 26, 2026

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8 min read

Follow the Money: Budget.xls > Strategy.ppt

Michael Hirsch
Michael Hirsch
The AI Leadership Bargain

Jan 12, 2026

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7 min read

The AI Leadership Bargain

Michael Hirsch
Michael Hirsch
Domain Experience vs. Functional Expertise? Neither.

Jan 5, 2026

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9 min read

Domain Experience vs. Functional Expertise? Neither.

Michael Hirsch
Michael Hirsch
Context Rot

Dec 22, 2025

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5 min read

Context Rot

Michael Hirsch
Michael Hirsch
What Kind of Year Has It Been?

Dec 15, 2025

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10 min read

What Kind of Year Has It Been?

The Path Forward (Part 2 of 2)

Michael Hirsch
Michael Hirsch
What Kind of Year Has It Been?

Dec 8, 2025

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9 min read

What Kind of Year Has It Been?

The Hidden Costs Nobody Warned Us About (Part 1 of 2)

Michael Hirsch
Michael Hirsch
The Barriers to AI Value Aren't Technical. They're Organizational—and They're Also Personal

Dec 1, 2025

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7 min read

The Barriers to AI Value Aren't Technical. They're Organizational—and They're Also Personal

Michael Hirsch
Michael Hirsch
Your AI Committee Thinks Its Job Is Governance. It's Not.

Nov 24, 2025

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13 min read

Your AI Committee Thinks Its Job Is Governance. It's Not.

Michael Hirsch
Michael Hirsch
Why 85% of Your Team Isn't Using the AI You Bought Them

Nov 17, 2025

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9 min read

Why 85% of Your Team Isn't Using the AI You Bought Them

(And Why More Training Won't Fix It)

Michael Hirsch
Michael Hirsch
The Acceleration Addiction

Nov 10, 2025

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12 min read

The Acceleration Addiction

Why Organizations Can't Stop Even When They Should

Michael Hirsch
Michael Hirsch
Strategic Capability: How to Actually Develop It When No One Will Teach You (Part 2 of 2)

Nov 3, 2025

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21 min read

Strategic Capability: How to Actually Develop It When No One Will Teach You (Part 2 of 2)

Michael Hirsch
Michael Hirsch
Speed vs. Strategy: The False Choice AI-Accelerated Product Teams Are Facing (Part 1 of 2)

Oct 27, 2025

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12 min read

Speed vs. Strategy: The False Choice AI-Accelerated Product Teams Are Facing (Part 1 of 2)

Michael Hirsch
Michael Hirsch
Building Cognitive Muscle in an AI World

Oct 20, 2025

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11 min read

Building Cognitive Muscle in an AI World

Why the teams winning with AI are deliberately choosing friction over efficiency (Part 3 of 3)

Michael Hirsch
Michael Hirsch
Outsourcing Your Brain

Oct 13, 2025

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8 min read

Outsourcing Your Brain

Why the mental work you're delegating might be exactly what makes you irreplaceable (part 2 of 3)

Michael Hirsch
Michael Hirsch
The Recombination Illusion

Oct 6, 2025

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9 min read

The Recombination Illusion

Why that "creative" AI output isn't what you think it is (Part 1 of 3)

Michael Hirsch
Michael Hirsch
Your AI Policy is Killing Innovation

Sep 29, 2025

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8 min read

Your AI Policy is Killing Innovation

Why PMs Should Write It Instead of Lawyers

Michael Hirsch
Michael Hirsch
The AI Delegation Paradox

Sep 22, 2025

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9 min read

The AI Delegation Paradox

Why companies are unknowingly destroying their ability to build what users actually want

Michael Hirsch
Michael Hirsch
The Human Judgment Gap

Sep 15, 2025

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8 min read

The Human Judgment Gap

Why smart companies are eliminating their most critical AI asset

Michael Hirsch
Michael Hirsch
The September Reckoning

Sep 8, 2025

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11 min read

The September Reckoning

Why working with human psychology beats fighting against it

Michael Hirsch
Michael Hirsch
The Legacy Game Paradox

Sep 1, 2025

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10 min read

The Legacy Game Paradox

The board game lesson that's changing how I think about AI strategy

Michael Hirsch
Michael Hirsch
The Elul Principle

Aug 25, 2025

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10 min read

The Elul Principle

The hardest part of AI transformation isn't learning—it's unlearning

Michael Hirsch
Michael Hirsch
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