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AI vs Brain Power- Who's Right?

Half the project team wants to use AI. The other half say let "Use Your Brain First." Here's what I think. It happened in a recent project management bootcamp I was running. A new task landed. Half the team immediately opened ChatGPT. The other half pushed back saying "can we just think it through ourselves first?" What followed wasn't just a debate about tools. It was a tension I'm seeing everywhere right now: in boardrooms, delivery teams, and transformation programmes acro

Rayy Babalola

Jun 172 min read

Is AI Helping or Wasting Time and Money?

Let's talk about the elephant in every boardroom right now. AI investment is at record levels. Total corporate AI spending hit $252 billion in 2024. Enterprise AI budgets are projected to increase by 64% in 2025. Every organisation is either implementing AI, planning to implement AI, or feeling guilty about not implementing AI fast enough. And yet. 70-85% of AI initiatives fail to meet their expected outcomes. 42% of companies abandoned most of their AI projects in 2025- up f

Rayy Babalola

Jun 173 min read

I Built My Entire Career Around My Stammer. Now the Ground Has Shifted.

I'm 35. I'm a subject matter expert with years of experience in Agile, project management, training, and consultancy. I was born with a stammer. For most of my career, I didn't talk about it much - because I didn't have to. I had quietly, carefully, built a professional life where it rarely got in the way. Looking back, that took more engineering than I ever admitted to myself. The architecture of control Early on, I gravitated toward roles that were systems-focused (thank go

Rayy Babalola

Jun 165 min read