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Notes on the innovation advantage GenAI can't give you.
Our annotated deck on David Schonthal's MIT Sloan Management Review essay — and what it means once you have to ship something. The original is the canonical read; this deck is for sharing inside a leadership team.
Source
"The Innovation Advantage GenAI Can't Give You" — David Schonthal, MIT Sloan Management Review, May 2026. Read the original ↗
What's inside
Ready-to-share deck
~16 sectioned slides distilling Schonthal's framing — examples, action plan, strategy takeaway for leaders. Save as PDF in one click.
Key takeaways
Six essential insights for the executive who reads nothing but bullets — Schonthal's argument plus our implementation-side note.
You'll come away knowing
- →Schonthal's argument: why ideas became a utility and what that did to the innovation playbook.
- →How to ask 'the question before the question' before your team brainstorms anything.
- →Seven real reframes — Cursor, Speak, Fireflies, Netflix, Duolingo, P&G, Anthropic — and what made each one possible.
- →Our addition: the implementation chain that turns a reframe into something that ships.
Best read alongside Schonthal's original. Built for founders, CEOs, COOs, and heads of strategy at SMB-to-mid-market businesses figuring out what AI actually means for their next two quarters.