The Business Prompt Playbook

You already know what AI can do. What you need is prompts that work in your actual job, on a normal Tuesday, when the meeting starts in twenty minutes and the report was due yesterday.

This is a working book, not a theory book. It gives you 101 ready-to-use prompts, each built around a real situation you face at work: preparing for a difficult conversation, turning rough notes into clean minutes, building a risk register, writing the status report nobody wants to write. You find the situation, copy the prompt, fill in a few details, and get a usable result.

Every prompt works with ChatGPT, Claude, and Microsoft Copilot. No coding, no plugins, no jargon. Each one comes as a complete recipe: the situation it solves, how hard it is, roughly how much time it saves, the full prompt, what to expect back, why it is built the way it is, and a variation for the next situation along. Every prompt also comes with a plain "what to fill in" guide that explains each blank you need to complete, so you never face an empty box wondering what the AI actually needs from you.

What you get:

- 101 copy-and-paste prompts organised by work situation, not by tool or technique
- Ten themes covering meetings, project planning, reporting, strategy, consulting, leadership, research, email, problem-solving, and personal productivity
- A clear "what to fill in" guide for every prompt, so you know exactly what each blank needs before you run it
- A plain explanation of why each prompt works, so you can adapt it to your own cases
- Every prompt doubles as a template you can reshape for your own situations and ideas, not just a fixed recipe to follow
- A closing set of ten principles that turns prompting from guesswork into a skill you own, so once you have used a few of these you can write the hundred-and-second prompt yourself

This book is written for managers, project managers, consultants, who already use AI tools and want more from them. It is not for beginners looking for an introduction to AI, and it does not pad the page with hype.

Thorsten Körner is a senior project consultant with more than 30 years of experience across software and systems integration, industrial projects, banking and finance transformation and critical infrastructure. He knows what makes a project work and has spent recent years focused on how AI can make project management not just faster but fundamentally better.

Open it at the situation in front of you. Get results you can use in the next ten minutes.