Are you an initiator or a responder? Tom Rath on thriving in the age of AI

What if the thing you spend the most time on at work won't matter at all when you're gone?  It's a confronting question, but it's the kind Tom Rath lives with deliberately. He walks past a 10,000-headstone cemetery near his home in Washington DC and has never once seen a grave mention social media…

What AI capability really looks like in high-performing teams

Sign up for Inventium’s AI Agent Bootcamp virtual or in-person. Your organisation hit its AI adoption target. Eighty percent of staff have a licence, onboarding is done, and the usage dashboard looks great. So why does the work feel the same, or worse? Hitting an adoption target and actually getti…

This is what AI is actually doing to your brain, with Gabriella Rosen Kellerman

The more AI tools you use, the more productive you get. Right?  Not exactly. Boston Consulting Group leader Gabriella Rosen Kellerman studied what actually happens to people who are using AI intensively at work, and what she found is that beyond a certain point, something breaks. Not burnout. Some…

The #1 mistake people make with AI

Every time you open a new AI chat, you're starting from scratch. You type out the background, explain your role, describe the project. Then you do it again tomorrow. And the day after. There's a better way, and it takes about 15 minutes over a cup of coffee. In this How I AI episode, Neo and I wa…

Sabri Suby on video sales letters, and the negotiation mistakes almost everyone makes (Part 2)

You're in sales. Even if your job title has nothing to do with sales, you are selling every single day. Ideas, proposals, budget requests, buy-in. The only question is whether you're any good at it. In part two of our chat, I sit down with Sabri Suby, founder of King Kong and a shark on the most r…

Why you need to talk, not type, to your AI 

You are almost certainly doing most of your computer work the slow way. Think about the last time you sat down to write an email, rename a file, or work through a tricky problem at your desk. Chances are, your fingers went straight to the keyboard. And you are not alone — when Neo and I ask audien…

The Subtraction Method: how Sabri Suby protects his time and focus (Part 1)

What if the secret to getting more done was to stop doing things? Sabri Suby, founder of King Kong, one of Australia's fastest-growing digital agencies and a shark on the most recent season of Shark Tank Australia, has built his entire work philosophy around subtraction. He audits every hour of hi…

Our #1 favourite AI tool for meetings

There is a moment most people have had in a meeting: the AI bot joins before your guest does, someone has to awkwardly ask if recording is okay, and the whole dynamic shifts. It is enough friction that most people just give up and go back to scribbling notes by hand. There is a better way, and it …

The AI playbook of ELMO Software’s President, Joseph Lyons

Being prepared is one of those things that sounds straightforward until you actually look at a leader's calendar. Back-to-back meetings, a constant stream of reports from different teams, and negotiations that require you to know the full history of a relationship before you've even said hello. Th…

Stop writing like a robot: ban these AI words and phrases

Download Inventium.ai's anti-AI slop prompt here: https://amantha-imber.kit.com/d5f746bd3e You can always tell when something's been written by AI. The LinkedIn post that opens with "in today's fast-paced world." The article that ends with "it's not about X, it's about Y." Technically fine, but so…