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      <image:caption>Brian Kennedy, Staffing industry M&amp;A guru, reposted my recent article titled “To AI or to Automate? So be the question!” and he made some interesting observations, and I’m going to take a moment to reflect upon and respond to some of them here. Brian, you’re right, we’re wading into a quagmire of confusion, and riddled with scope for naming, blaming, shaming and potential intentional ignorance…</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A good while back a young leader reached out to me, with a call for help, as we were entering the “new norm”, post COVID, asking; “MC, with your track record in transforming business, what’s your secret sauce?"</image:caption>
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