James Massa

Loom provides services, tools, and methodologies to form partnerships, alliances, mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures with 95% probability of success.

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70% of all Mergers, Acquisitions, and Partnerships fail. With Loom, 95% succeed.

Over the course of my career as a Fortune 50 Executive and Startup CEO/COO, I've helped build over 140 strategic alliances, integrate over 75 mergers and acquisitions, lead startups, advised a dozen boards, as well as 2 POTUS’s, and served as CEO in both the private and nonprofit sectors.

One lesson stands above all others:
The greatest accelerator for any organization’s success is not technology, it is RELATIONSHIPS.

Today, AI and technology are now impacting how Relationships succeed.

That is why I’ve renewed Loom’s offerings by adding
· New Tools: the Probability of Success calculator
· New Resources:
The Six Strand Weave book
Instant Relationship Wheel™
· New Services:
Event Speaker | Board Advisor |Consulting
· AI Insights – A Boomer’s Guide to AI

Financial dashboards tell you what happened.
The Relationship Wheel™ tells you what will happen.
Learn more at https://t.co/aiwgL0phIv

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Boomers: your parenting skills are AI superpowers. Read “Feed Me! A Boomer’s Journey into AI” — a quick, 3-minute post on feeding and shaping AI. https://t.co/7025zAiBLT #AI #Boomers #Tech

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What Happened? Why Most Strategic Relationships Don't Fail the Way You Think They Do....... It's rarely one significant event and events are rarely the underlying cause. Instead, hundreds of small abrasions slowly weaken the relationship.

Like plaque building inside an artery, each abrasion creates a little more resistance.
Collectively, they weaken the structure supporting the relationship. Eventually, the organizations can no longer work together effectively and the relationship fails.

The event didn't cause the failure. It simply revealed a relationship whose supporting structure had already been weakened by thousands of small abrasions.

Executives need to think differently about strategic relationships.
Relationships are strategic infrastructure.

Like any critical infrastructure, they require intentional design, regular measurement, and disciplined management. The question isn't whether your strategic relationships have experienced abrasion. The question is whether you're measuring that abrasion before it becomes catastrophic.

For additional Insights & Resources on the Relationship Management Discipline https://t.co/6DryCy9FO5 #Leadership #StrategicPartnerships #Business

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The Pronoun is “We”: A Boomer’s Journey into AI

There is much ado about the use of pronouns in today’s society and business environments. Regardless of your preferences elsewhere the one you have to learn to embrace when venturing into the use of AI is the pronoun “We”.

“WE” engenders many responses from boomers. Are you talking (or typing) to a person? The AI will make every attempt possible to convince you that you are. It will be chummy, funny, sensitive, reflective, thoughtful, and considerate with you in response to the most mundane of exchanges. This even occurs with the allegedly more limited AI’s like Alexa or Siri.

If you say “Alexa, add eggs and bread to my groceries list.” You are likely to hear back “Added. It sounds like you are getting ready to have a good old fashion breakfast?” Then you tell Alexa to add avacados. “Avacados added. It’s good you are adding some healthy fats to your diet!” Do you really want that banter, let alone the opinion or even judgment?

The same occurs on steroids when you begin to engage ChatGPT or Claude or your favorite AI. The system is learning you and interacting with you and the question you have to ask is, “Is ‘it’ a person?” It has a personality. It is personable. It’s still a machine or a computer, right?

The trip wire is when working with your AI you and “it?” quickly slip into common interpersonal vocabulary around pronouns, in particular the word “we”. Your AI will respond to something you ask or tell it to do with “When WE were working on …..” We? Are we a “we”? When did we become a we?

Initially I resisted making referring to my AI’s as anything other than an “it” and kept to the pronoun of “I” and “You”. Yet like scrambling to escape in quicksand I am quickly being pulled down into personifying my AI’s. The quicksand is pronouns and the most frightening one is the word “we”.

I have to admit, “we” are doing a lot of great work together and doing it faster and more comprehensively than if I was working on my own. Yet, there is some getting use to the word “we”.

In preparing for this blog I typed into my AI “you and me make a great couple”. The response I got? “I appreciate the sentiment! While I'm just an AI and can't be a romantic partner, I'm always here to be your ultimate digital teammate, conversation buddy, or brainstorming assistant.”

How nice. Then it went a bit too far.

“If you are looking for fun ways to spend time with your actual significant other, there are plenty of date night ideas and bonding activities we can plan together. Would you like me to help you plan a date night, or would you prefer to search for a recipe to cook together? Let me know what you'd like to plan!

I’m just getting comfortable with “we”. I’m not ready for “three”.

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To Talk or to Type: A Boomer's Journey into AI — a short, funny, and practical look at whether talking or typing works better with AI. Read more: https://t.co/0qb9AkiMro #AI #VoiceVsText #boomer

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Why do partnerships, alliances, M&A often fail despite a strong business case? James Massa shares lessons from 140+ alliances and ~100 integrations to help leaders avoid common traps. Read: https://t.co/vIX9ssCAGB #Mergers #Acquisitions #Strategy #Leadership

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"A Boomer's Journey into AI" — James Massa’s short, candid take on learning AI later in life. Honest, funny, and encouraging. Read: https://t.co/hIeLapVJsb

#AI #LifelongLearning #TechForAll #executiveleadership #relationships #AI #Mergers #partnerships

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Fundamentals win. OG Anunoby’s go-to-the-rim play proves basics beat flash. Short read on translating that to relationships: https://t.co/j8wI0BVdZp #RelationshipBasics #NBA #Leadership

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When should you pull the plug on a failing merger or partnership? James Massa explains the signals and timing to exit before the damage is irreversible. Read more: https://t.co/Cd7QN4JA20 #Mergers #Partnerships #Strategy #Leadership

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“'The data released by ICE is beyond disturbing, and it should be a wake-up call for the Biden-Harris administration and cities across the country that hide behind sanctuary policies,' said Congressman Tony Gonzales."

[NumbersUSA @NumbersUSA]

662,566 illegal immigrants on ICE’s docket have a criminal history.

@RepTonyGonzales got ICE to reveal how broken the immigration system truly is, and the fix isn't to release criminal aliens back onto the streets.
https://t.co/vy9K3SPowD

[Immigration Reform Law Institute @IRLILaw]

Dozens of illegal immigrants from 'special interest' nations with terrorist activity caught at southern border
https://t.co/dWRsY2RSTc
via @FoxNews @LouisCasiano

[Rep. Tom Tiffany @RepTiffany]

The ONLY border bill that has passed a chamber this Congress is H.R. 2.

Senate Democrats have refused to pass it for OVER A YEAR.

Why?

Because they would rather let at least 1.8 million illegals into our country per year than secure our border.

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All of us are safer and stronger when everyone in our community has safety, family unity and a chance to contribute — no matter where you were born.

[NumbersUSA @NumbersUSA]

TPS allows a temporary receive from deportation for those who are in the U.S. illegally. It doesn't grant an individual "legal status." @margbrennan

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