The Big Idea: Make faster, smarter decisions by harnessing AI as your strategic thought partner.
Ch 1: The Rise of AI and the AI-Driven Leader
- Make smarter, faster decisions by harnessing AI as a strategic thought partner.
- Always ask, “How can AI help me solve this problem?”
- Let AI do the heavy lifting by analyzing huge volumes of data.
- Let AI automate routine tasks and streamline processes.
- Let AI serve as your strategic thought partner to align short-term and long-term.
Ch 2: What Past Technological Revolutions Can Teach AI-Driven Leaders
- Embrace change. Adapt quickly.
- Lead by example. Use AI yourself.
- Acknowledge the risks and fears of the team when it comes to AI.
Ch 3: Shift from Operational Overwhelm to Strategic Clarity
- Microsoft CEO Nadella changed the culture from a bunch of know-it-all’s to a bunch of learn-it-alls.
- Successful change requires strong, visionary leadership.
- Remind the team that the goal is not to replace people with AI but to enhance them.
- Better quality prompts yield better quality answers.
- Ask AI to interview you to help clarify your thinking.
Ch 4: Understand AI
- Three ways to use AI: increase employee productivity, improve operational efficiency, create innovative products and services.
- AI risks: hallucinations, privacy, biases.
- Essential ingredients of a good prompt: describe the task, give context, assign a persona, specify requirements, establish limits, explain why, ask it to interview you.
- AI can generate 50% of the content but you should finish it from there.
Ch 5: Supercharge Your Leadership
- Top 5 ways to use AI to get more done: strategic thinking, decision making, content creation, idea generation, analysis.
- Explicitly ask for non-obvious ideas.
Ch 6: The High Price of the Wrong Questions
- Ask AI to play devil’s advocate to question assumptions and poke holes in the plan.
Ch 7: Collapse the Time from Data to Decisions
- Upload research papers, data files, or ask AI to review online data sources.
- Ask AI to perform fact-checking for you.
Ch 8: Navigate Short-Term Pressures Without Sacrificing Long-Term Growth
- Ask AI to interview you to identify how to deliver long-term value and also quick wins.
- 5 characteristics of a strategic mindset: focus on customer, turn vision into results, prioritize and communicate, think critically and act on data, be adaptable and embrace change.
- 4 drivers of growth: strategy, execution, people, technology.
- Ask: what’s the business that will put us out of business? How can we build it first?
- Ask AI to simulate how customers might respond to something.
- Ask AI to act as your executive coach, interview you, and point out any blind spots or holes in the plan.
- Ask AI to act as a board member and ask questions about the presentation.
Ch 9: Accelerate Strategic Momentum
Ch 10: Lead with Strategic Clarity
- 3 common strategic problems: not thinking big enough, losing sight of the bigger picture, doing it in isolation.
- Think bigger.
- Revisit your strategic plan every quarter: strategy, execution, people, technology.
Ch 11: The Critical First 30 Days
- Break down your plan into bite-sized actionable milestones.
- Block off time in your calendar to take action.
- Ask AI to review your strategic plan to make sure it’s broken down.
- Ask AI to review your calendar to make sure it reflects the top priorities.
Ch 12: 10x The Impact of Every Employee
- 10x is Easier Than 2x: you can 10x your growth by letting go of 80% of what you do and focus on the 20% that makes the most impact.
- Make sure your team is focused on their top 20% and ask AI to help you identify the top 20%.
- Elon Musk’s five rules for process improvement: question every requirement, delete non-essential steps, simplify what’s left, accelerate what’s left, automate what’s left.
Ch 13: Integrate AI Seamlessly
- Technology is a tool. It’s still strategy first, technology second.
- Change management: get people involved early, get quick wins, encourage a growth mindset.
Ch 14: Go from 0 to 1
- Build a competitive advantage in the long-term through actions taken in the short-term.
- Remember to always ask: how can AI help me do this?
- How to use AI: ask AI to interview you, ask AI to generate a high quality prompt,