Sharpen the Axe First — why preparation beats tool hype.

From a live TESS Group AI workshop · captions included

“If I had an hour to cut down a tree, I'd spend the first 45 minutes sharpening the axe rather than just whacking away with the blunt axe. Before we start swinging at the tree, what's the work we do in advance to make sure we're deploying the tools in the most likely way to succeed?”

The organisations that get value from AI aren't the ones that bought the most tools — they're the ones that prepared. This clip explains the principle behind the preparation modules in TESS apprenticeships.

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