There’s a fantastic quote about the current state of artificial intelligence:

The Danger of Standing Still

For too many businesses and professionals, the default strategy toward AI is still waiting and watching. It feels safer to let others absorb the risk and the cost of early adoption.

But this inertia is the most significant risk of all.

If you are waiting for a perfect, off-the-shelf AI solution to solve all your problems, you will miss the fundamental shift happening right now. This is not a software update; it’s a new operating system for business.

When AI moves from crawling to walking, the companies already experimenting will be prepared to sprint. Those waiting on the sidelines will suddenly find the finish line miles ahead.

Your Call to Action: Start Simple

You don’t need a massive investment or a team of data scientists to get started. You need a mindset shift.

Here is the Coaching … “How you can stop watching and start exploring today?”

Identify the “Menial”: Where are your time sinks? Which tasks are repetitive, require little creativity, and consume hours? This is your prime target for AI. (Think document summaries, first-draft content, or data categorization.)

Pilot a Single Tool: Introduce a single, low-cost AI tool into one small team; like an advanced summarizer; a project management AI; or a prompt-driven image generator. Treat it as a cheap experiment, not a company-wide rollout.

Learn the Language: Stop outsourcing your curiosity. Learn how to write a good AI prompt. Understanding how to talk to these systems is rapidly becoming the new literacy skill.

The goal isn’t immediate transformation; the goal is familiarity. By the time AI is ready to run, you want your team and your company to be ready to run alongside it.

Don’t let your competition learn to walk while you’re still waiting for the starting gun. The crawling phase is ending. Are you ready for what comes next?

What is one small, non-critical task you could test with an AI tool this week?