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AI adoption fails on mandates
Leaders around the country are mandating AI amidst efficiency promises and required training. Programs roll out and employees nod, complete the requirements, and quietly go back to the way they’ve always worked. Here’s the problem with mandates: they don’t work on fear and, for most people, AI is frightening. It’s moving fast, it’s everywhere, and it feels like it’s coming for the thing your employees are best at. You can’t mandate your way past that. You can’t efficiency your way past it either.
How AI Turns Firm Workflows From 'Read This Document' To 'Do This Next'
Operations teams know where firms get stuck. Onboarding drags on longer than it should. Workflows sit in binders or intranet pages that no one has memorized. Client communication slows when advisors are juggling meetings, reviews and a stream of unexpected market shifts. These issues aren’t new, and until recently, most firms didn’t have the tools to address them in a meaningful way.
Successful AI Implementation Starts With Building Trust
Advisor Perspectives welcomes guest contributions. The views presented here do not necessarily represent those of Advisor Perspectives. For advisory firms, the question is not if AI will affect operations but how to introduce it in ways that strengthen both client relationships and internal culture. Technology is only half of the equation. In any business, credibility is everything. Advisors need a clear understanding of what leadership expects the impact of AI to be on their day-to-day activities.
How to Keep Up Client Momentum, Even in Quiet Seasons
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Advisor Perspectives welcomes guest contributions. The views presented here do not necessarily represent those of Advisor Perspectives. We’re not acquirers. But we’re friends with acquirers, and we notice some common challenges as they work their way through their growth strategies. A lot of hard work goes into the integration side of RIA acquisitions. You rarely hear about the heavy lifting that happens after the handshakes and big announcements.
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4 Reasons AI Training Should Come Before the Tech Itself
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The Nonsensical Nature of 5
A poem about senseless brothers Emily Wilcox · Follow Published in ILLUMINATION · 1 min read · -- Photo by Tim Marshall on Unsplash Sound, asleep, breathes low, breathes deep, A rumbling breaks through his chest. Gentle sighs morph into gargled snores, The melody of his tumultuous rest. Sight, enraged, elbows him hard. “Shut it,” he says, eyes dark and unfeeling. Restlessly he blinks once, and then twice, As he stares, wide awake, at the ceiling.
Combining Fantasy With Reality Makes For A Better, Brighter Life
Combining Fantasy With Reality Makes For A Better, Brighter Life What is fantasy? This enchanting concept that encircles us like a pack of lions sniffing at a house cat? It’s everywhere we go; fantasy football, fantasy novels, our wildest dreams and risqué desires. But what actually is it?
Time to Asphyxiate Your Darlings
From one fluffy writer to another I recently received a reply to an email of mine that said: “Thanks for your email — a bit convoluted to read, but I think I understand what you’re asking for?” For context, the person I was reaching out to was a bookstore owner, and the questions they’re eluding to are about their in-bookshop cat for a piece I am writing for a magazine.
How A Siberian Jay Turned the Finnish Wilderness into a Moment of Snow-Kissed...
By Emily Wilcox A Siberian story: Tag, you're it Image by author's soulmate: my hand and my new feathered friend Snow shimmers in -24 degrees. Trees that usually wear their forest green coats are dusted by frost, looming tall and piercing the pastel coloured sky like sentinels for a citadel of silence. Finland is made of frozen moments, standing...
The Humanity of the Inhuman
The Humanity of the Inhuman A poem about the immortality of emotions Photo by Stefano Pollio on Unsplash We’re all a little monstruous, With our claws and words and fangs. We death glare at any outsiders, Who aren’t within our covens and our gangs. But even devilish demons can sometimes feel, The heat of the hellfire burning their skin. Vampires get…
Why Big Words are Placing a Curse on Your Writing
Why Big Words are Placing a Curse on Your Writing Let me ask you this: Hath thine not had a great many frenetic thoughts, worrisome in mind at the stark knowledge of their lack of intellectually attuned lexicon?
3 Ways to Tame and Wield Your Imagination in Your Everyday Life
3 Ways to Tame and Wield Your Imagination in Your Everyday Life A feral creature cased inside your skill, prowling for release. It’s a huntress by nature, desperate to capture any sensory input and tear it to shreds in it’s talons, leaving behind only a carcass of meaning and understanding in its wake. That’s how we experience life — through the cat-eyed lens of our imagination, fierce but sometimes afraid. So how do we make it purr?
The Raw Romanticism of Being a Writer
The unadulterated truth to being a tale-teller Everybody is a writer. Normal people have notepads and biros littered somewhere in their kitchen. Regular humans write handwritten shopping lists and sign birthday cards with a kiss. Everyday beings make notes, scribble reminders and jot down phone numbers onto the back of their lunch receipts. But writers are not normal people. We’re not everybody. We do not live regular and everyday existences. Writers are romanticisers. We’re fantastical thinkers.
How to Harness Your Imagination to Write Epic Stories
Em-bellishments 5 ways to ignite your imagination From lands Far Far Away to four elephants stood atop a turtle, writers are responsible for the architecture of many a fictional realm. Over the years, they’ve developed innumerable ways to build sturdy foundations on top of reliable narrators and smoothly laid plots (and the odd reptilian shell).
Writing Down the Bones, The Flesh, The Blood, The Being
Em-bellishments What it means to be a writer — and a human It occurred to me the other day that writing is not like anything else, ever. It’s like nothing else we’ve ever encountered as a species, and yet it’s the culmination of everything we’ve ever done, thought, accomplished, spanning all of human history. Writing, in one sense, is a skill. It’s the shape that many stories arrive as, packaged in punctuation and paragraphs and perspective.
My OCD Stole My Writing From Me
I think that if I had the chance to change the title of my Medium Day talk after the event, I would change the bit where I get my writing back. I am writing this now, aren't I? It was a rare day. Sorry, I couldn't resist. Pull up a chair and read why. If our lives are the average of how we spend our days, then let them be medium! Because Medium Day was the greatest. I am one of the lucky ones who got invited to speak to my refined yet remarkable audience.
How Writers Can Help People
Em-bellishments 5 ways to wield your words for good Good and evil are not decided by the tool. Both Harry and Voldemort wield wands, but the power that they create are dramatically different. The tool, the Medium, is a platform, a totem, wearing the face of those who use it. And words — there’s nothing that retains more power than a word, said with intention, and for a reason. Which is why I intend to wield mine for good. But that’s easier said than said, right?
A Side Effect of Overthinking That Nobody Tells You About
At 17-months old, I got diagnosed as an overthinker. No, really. Less than a year and half old, and I was already talking the talk, but I was too afraid to walk the walk without carrying my baby activity bouncer with me.
How to Move to a City You Don't Want to Move to
Three weeks ago, me and my soulmate moved home. Though sometimes it feels more like a wholesome Air BnB owned by somebody who has pinched all of our belongings and filled it with our existential innards, rather than "home." The whole move, the transition process, it sucks. I've struggled. Still am.
Your End-of-Year Roadmap: Staying Ahead in the Home Stretch
Between much-needed vacations, the whirlwind of fall conferences, and the warmth of winter holidays, it can be hard to find time on the calendar to do the stuff that Stephen Covey described as “important, but not urgent.” And then around late November, after a cozy Thanksgiving dinner-induced nap, it’s all too easy to wake up in a cold sweat, remembering the mountain of stuff that needs to be done before the end of the calendar year. Suddenly, all those tasks become important and urgent.
The Kitten on The Wall in a Warzone
Printscreen by author: the kitten on the wall the kitten on the wall in a warzone TW: animal cruelty There's a tiny being screaming for her life in Kherson, Ukraine. No bigger than palm-sized and clinging on for dear life to a damp crevice in a wall, a bright ginger kitten is seconds away from drowning in this darkening world.
Forbidden Fruit Wholesalers Through Time
By Emily Wilcox Adam, Eve and a snake with sales to make Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash It takes 17 seconds for me to walk 156,000 years into the past. "Eat the apple," I hiss at the completely ill-informed faces of two rather naked people. It's meant politely, of course, though nothing sounds quite as quaint when delivered from the tongue of a poisoned mouth.
How the F*ck Have You Been Doing This For so Long?
I'm three and a half weeks into my first ever 9 to 6, Monday to Friday job. And I am exhausted. The job is great! The people, greater! And the lifestyle: everything that I'm not used to. I've been a freelance or part-time writer for five years now and one of my favourite perks of the job - other than storytelling for a living - was the freedom to choose my working hours verses living hours.
I'm Gonna Do Something You're Gonna Hate
By Emily Wilcox #Bonus - Dead or Alive I'm going to make Medium into something it's not Image by author: Me, Ben, Broden the sheep and a women from the 1600s. Medium is by no means a diary. It's not a 2009 Piczo site nor a Twilight themed Tumblr I'm trying to revive sometime this month (no really, I am) and according to a lot of people, it's not a place to splurge...
I'm Sorry, But I Think Your Phone is the Worst Thing About You
By Emily Wilcox This one is for the art of disconnection Photo by Austin Ban on Unsplash Your phone's in your hand again, isn't it? What's your background like? Somebody you love on there, I bet. A photo of a holiday maybe, or a celebrity. Perhaps a quote that inspires you. I like when we use our phone's for good.
Arise Africa, Roar China: A Conversation with Yunxiang Gao
The past two decades have witnessed an explosive growth in historical scholarship exploring African American connections with China during the twentieth century. In their Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies web resource Teaching China through Black History, Keisha A.
What if I Don't Have Any Value to Provide?
By Emily Wilcox No, no, genuinely, I'm asking you It's the Age of Information. The Era of Regurgitation. The Time of Accelerated Communication. And I am riddled with frustration. I'm not an expert in ANYTHING. You know you have those friends, cool friends, friends with niches. Friends like Alvin who is a music maestro and Simon who's...
Me and ChatGPT Wrote a Poem
By Emily Wilcox It was fun. What do you think? Photo by charlesdeluvio on Unsplash The middleman. The average Joe. A goldilocks guy - never high, never low. Always in the middle, he's a steady flow. Neither too fast nor too slow. Between a rock and a hard place, on the middle floor. He's not got nothing, but he could want more.
The Promise I Made That Genuinely Saved My Life
I kept a promise — and it kept me going Emily Wilcox · Follow Published in Curious Papers · 4 min read · May 3, 2023 -- Photo by Womanizer Toys on Unsplash “I promise I’m not going to do that.” I was 17, sat in my therapist’s second living room, a fish tank to my left, a chalk drawing of a flip-flop in my lap that my therapist had just this second commissioned from me, and the whole of my future there in her hands. Except, it wasn’t really. It was in mine.
The Bored Sea Creature and His Macroscopic Toy Ship
A story about a famous ocean liner - from the perspective of an ocean creature. "The Bored Sea Creature and His Macroscopic Toy Ship" is published by Emily Wilcox in ILLUMINATION-Curated.
A Lot of Lunatics and a Lot of Rope
A poem about a migrating moon. "A Lot of Lunatics and a Lot of Rope" is published by Emily Wilcox in ILLUMINATION.
A Womb with a View
A limerick about periods
How to Write Beautiful Things
We all judge books by their covers — and their innards, too Writers wield pens like painters with their paintbrushes. They create plains made of monochrome ink, mountains in the shapes of capital Ms and snow-kissed expanses right there in the white of the page between the words. Writes are artists. Architects. Designers. Visual composers. Aesthetic engineers. Ever since the 16th century, with the use of our modern languages, writers have been turning 26 letters into infinite landscapes.
We Call it "A Living"
Life, by all definitions, is what we experience - endure - between sunrise and sunset (and what we sleep through, afterwards) within each and every day that we exist.
Sino-Japanese Cultural Diplomacy in the 1950s: The Making and Reception of the Matsuyama Ballet’s The White-Haired Girl
The Matsuyama Ballet’s The White-Haired Girl Reconstructed As the first ever ballet adaptation of The White-Haired Girl, the Matsuyama Ballet’s 1955 two-act production has long been recognized as an important precursor of the Chinese revolutionary ballets.52 Of these, one of the most famous is the Shanghai Dance School’s adaptation of The White-Haired Girl, which premiered as a full-length work in 1965 and was made into a ballet film in 1971.
10 Ways Our Understanding of Time is Wrong
By Emily Wilcox I'm curious: isn't it time we found out the truth? Time is our most invaluable currency, one that is afforded to all of us and we cannot afford to waste it. It's slippery (I SWEAR it was only 2019 a couple of minutes ago?), it's precious (no amount of money can capture the joyful memories that moments can) and it's not at all what we think it is.
I've Decided to Sell My Body Online
By Emily Wilcox Hear me out mom, I can explain In 2020, my best friend and I contemplated selling pictures of our feet. Contemplation soon grew into temptation, which later evolved into a couple of on-the-nose (or should we say "on-the-toes"?) foot-themed Instagram usernames with a backlog of grainy, poorly lit photos of our footsies.
Welcome to Curio City
By Emily Wilcox An introduction to Inquisitive Sheets. Sorry, sorry, Curious Papers™. Image by author, made on Canva (never missing an opportunity to shoutout the moon). The birth of When a person loves another person, like the very beginnings of the universe itself, there's a Big Bang. Et voila! Existence is born. Well, this was nothing like that.
Will Somebody Please Do These Writing Prompts With Me?
Em-bellishments No seriously. Don’t make me beg. I’ve got a Physics with Astrophysics degree, which is, by and large, just maths written in galaxy print. And what is maths if not accountancy? Accounting technicians? Accountant managers? YET SOMEHOW, I STIL CANNOT KEEP MYSELF ACCOUNTABLE. Okay. Yeah. That was a super long-winded, rather niche way of me, a writer, saying that sometimes, I suck at remembering to write. Sure, I write shopping lists. Journal entries. My to-day’s to-do’s.
100 Genuine Ways to Live a Better Life This Year. Genuinely.
By Emily Wilcox Backed by science and a guy from YouTube Picture this. It's 8:32 pm on a bank holiday Monday, the first of the year, and I am sprawled out at an angle not too dissimilar to the Earth's axial tilt, a blanket with stars printed on is draped over my knees like the night sky has been embroidered into my anatomy, and I'm clutching a half...
Why You Need to Live Your Day Like it's 5 Hours Long
By Emily Wilcox An intro to The Lunatic's Day method Around 100 million years ago, during the beginnings of the moon, a day on Earth was only 5 hours long. How do I know that? Because Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock says so in her book that I'm currently reading, Book of the Moon: A Guide to Our Closest Neighbour, in which she states:
Why You Need to Have "The Room"
By Emily Wilcox We all want our space - but THIS space we NEED My uncle died on May 14th of this year. It's been exactly half a year having lost somebody I'll love for my whole life and honestly, I don't think it will ever feel real. You never accept it. You never truly believe that you won't see them again in this lifetime. You never stop...
10 Ways to Live a Slow Life: and Why
By Emily Wilcox "Live fast, die young" or live slow, and live forever When did everything become so quick? Fast food. Faster Wifi. Livestreaming and instant messaging and same-day deliveries. Everything has a shortcut these days, doesn't it? Your SatNav can help you avoid a traffic jam before you've even left the house. Your UberEats driver will be at your...
You Life is Made of Phases
You Life is Made of Phases - Here's How to Make the Most of Them. Your emo phase, your rice cake phase, your air-fryer phase: they're all you.
A Letter to My Insecurities (and Maybe Yours, Too)
This one is from me, to me. "A Letter to My Insecurities (and Maybe Yours, Too)" is published by Emily Wilcox in ILLUMINATION-Curated.
4 Things Writers and Real Estate Agents Have in Common
Em-bellishments Both sold their souls to the devil for a dime Houses are like books, right? Full of people, all sorts of crazy characters, contained within these walls — these pages — and going about their business. This house, this book, it’s been designed, specially crafted and curated to allow for these people, these characters to feel like they belong here — or not. These houses are made of solid foundations. Built upon literal plots. They’ve got structure and durability and purpose.
Punk Tuation
By Emily Wilcox A poem about grammatical rebellion Photo by Tom Jur on Unsplash structure formatting punctuation its a load of crap shaped misinformation we dont need little lines in and amongst all these letters to help us read in between the lines a little better what does the comma do that common sense cannot and why must we exclaim when WE CAN JUST SHOUT A WHOLE LOT and where is the need for the period full stop when life is a long sentence that only...
10 Things You Probably Don't Know About Me
By Emily Wilcox And if you do - have you been emailing my mom? Image of author: me looking for anybody who might maybe want to know this stuff (notice the distinct lack of other people in this photo) No, literally. My mom explained how I was overly cautious with all of my tiny person movements and the doctor replied, "yeah, she's an overthinker." Jokes on me. It's incurable.
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