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Hey Reader AI is making us faster.
Brilliant but there’s a danger hiding in all that speed. We can get to an answer before we’ve properly understood the question. That’s something I’ve noticed repeatedly in the work we’ve been doing around AI and leadership. The temptation is to ask: What can AI do here? I think leaders need another question alongside it: Who do I need to listen to before we decide? The higher the ambiguity and the greater the impact on people, the more human judgement still matters. Recent work from MIT Sloan makes exactly that distinction: routine, low-risk decisions lend themselves far more readily to automation; strategic, ambiguous ones need strong human involvement. So perhaps one of the most important AI skills isn’t prompting. It’s pausing. Before you accept the beautifully structured answer, recommendation or next step, ask:
Technology can help us move incredibly quickly. Leadership is knowing when not to. Big love to your brain. |
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