Playbook: AI Layoffs

You've read the post. A CEO goes on LinkedIn. Hard decision. I own this. Because of AI, we'll come out leaner, faster, stronger. Max Clark has written one of these. He's also been on the receiving end of one. In this Playbook, he breaks down what that post actually says — and what it's designed to leave out. Not to indict the people who write them, but to hand you one question: whenever a company or a vendor tells you why they're doing something, who was that explanation written for? It's the same…

You Bought the Stack. You're Using Half of It.

The average enterprise uses 44% of the Microsoft stack they're paying for. Denis O'Shea knows because he's measured it — the same 120-point assessment, hundreds of organizations, the number doesn't move. The other 56% is licensed and sitting idle while the same teams buy third-party tools to fill gaps that 365 already covers. Denis is the founder of Mobile Mentor and has managed 14.5 million enterprise devices across healthcare and financial services. He's seen what the stack looks like from the…