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The Big LunchLead story · CL-BL-005 · 4 min

AI at Work · Management

The AI Company Would Like to See Your D+ Work

Spellbook sells AI to help lawyers draft and review contracts. Internally, its CEO would now prefer employees send him the rough version of an idea instead of five pages of AI-polished prose.

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The Break RoomFast workplace reports · Updated during the week

The company is still operating.

Recent notices from the part of work that was not covered in the leadership deck.

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“Most of My Answers Are Two Letters — ‘OK’ or ‘No.’”
Executive correspondence · Two-letter operating model

Corporate Lunch interpretation

Siemens CEO Roland Busch gets roughly 200 emails a day. The system for keeping his inbox under 100 transfers the remaining context to everyone else.

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Dave & His ManagerFeatured episode · CL-DH-004
A manager declaring that the company needs to increase AI adoption

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AI Strategy

Management has identified the strategic requirement: the adoption number should be larger.

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What they said. What they meant.

What they said
What they meant
We’re being thoughtful about AI.
We bought the licenses and made no other decisions.
Let’s pilot it.
Let’s do this for eight months and never conclude anything.
This is about enablement.
We sent an email.
We’re an AI-first company now.
We are not backfilling that role.
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