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The AI Manager · a guide to pay rises, job offers and controlling your future

18 of 18 chapters written, plus the author’s note and the biography. 55,276 words. Chapters update the moment they are saved.
Front matter
Author's Notewrittenfilm
How this book was written
Chapter 1
You Were Asking It Like a Search Enginewrittenfilm
What you already got right, and the ninety per cent nobody mentions
Chapter 2
What You Are Actually Paid Forwrittenfilm
Five stages in every piece of work. Four are already done better by a machine
Chapter 3
The AI Mindsetwrittenfilm
The five seconds after a good answer, and why your name is the one on it
Chapter 4
Instructions Are the Answerwrittenfilm
The six-line brief, and how to steal a pattern from what already worked
Chapter 5
Decide Before You Askwrittenfilm
Four decisions you are currently making by accident
Chapter 6
Ask a Different Questionwrittenfilm
The second ask is not the same question harder. That is where the money is
Chapter 7
Make It Prove Itselfwrittenfilm
Asking if it is sure is worthless. You have to give it a reason to disagree with you
Chapter 8
The End of Good Enoughwrittenfilm
A number you can push on beats an opinion you cannot
Chapter 9
Use More Than Onewrittenfilm
One system agreeing with itself is a single point of failure with a confident voice
Chapter 10
Read the Room, Not Just the Messagewrittenfilm
What was asked is not what is needed, and whose urgency is it anyway
Chapter 11
Check Your Own Thinkingwrittenfilm
Ten chapters checked the machine. This one checks the person holding the pen
Chapter 12
Nothing Will Remind You to Thinkwrittenfilm
Accept what is right, test what you are unsure of, and notice what nobody has thought of yet
Chapter 13
Decide It Once, Then Never Againwrittenfilm
The plan you write first is the worst plan you will ever have
Chapter 14
Ask What Could Go Wrongwrittenfilm
Ten questions, none technical, that change how senior people see you
Chapter 15
Your Responsibility With AIwrittenfilm
Eleven questions that will make you seem wise, or save your company
Chapter 16
Make It Visible, Then Give It Awaywrittenfilm
A correct answer nobody can see is worth nothing
Chapter 17
Ten Dayswrittenfilm
Ten small jobs, one a day. You finish holding something you built
Chapter 18
The Conversationwrittenfilm
Written from the chair that decides
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