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    Article9 February 2026

    From excitement to high expectations: AI anxiety, and how to beat it

    Cover: detail of Fishing Boats on a River, Salomon van Ruysdael, early 1660s. The Met, Open Access.

    Boardroom 10x goals are running weeks ahead of execution reality — and the gap is doing real damage to adoption. AI fluency, not tooling, is the lever that closes it. Three frameworks I keep returning to in workshops: the builder's path, Ravi Mehta's access-expectation-challenge, and Kene Anoliefo's 3 Ps.

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