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For consistency without burnout, create a marketing engine
Lee Crumbaugh Lee Crumbaugh

For consistency without burnout, create a marketing engine

Does this sound familiar?

You start the month with the best of intentions. You block out time on your calendar to write that blog post or schedule those LinkedIn updates. But then, reality hits. A client needs you, a project deadline looms, or a crisis pops up.

Naturally, the first thing to get pushed off your plate is your own marketing.

And then the guilt sets in.

I want you to know that you are not alone in this. We have all been there. The problem isn't that you lack discipline or that you aren't working hard enough. The problem is that we often treat marketing as a "Project"—a burst of effort we squeeze in when we have spare moments—rather than a "Process," a steady engine that runs whether we are busy or not.

If you are the bottleneck, consistency is impossible.

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AI revisited: Will it ever make perfect decisions?
Decision making Lee Crumbaugh Decision making Lee Crumbaugh

AI revisited: Will it ever make perfect decisions?

In our book, BIG DECISIONS, published in 2022, we took on the topic of whether artificial intelligence would soon (or ever) become the answer when we are looking for the right decision.

The idea is that we can maximize our gain from decisions is by using machines to help us make them or even have machines make them for us. But the question then and even more so now with the sudden emergence of OpenAI’s Chat GPT, Meta’s Llama 2, Anthropic’s Claude 2, Google’s Bard, and other groundbreaking AI large language models (LLMs), is can an algorithm be perfected to always yield "the right decision"?

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