Speaker 1: Helping leaders motivate their people to a higher level of
Speaker 1: performance through strong human relations, team building, and golajieving. This
Speaker 1: is the seven Minute Leadership Podcast with your host Paul Fellavaledo.
Speaker 2: Hello everyone, and welcome to the Seven Minute Leadership Podcast.
Speaker 2: It's episode five seventy six. It's a new year, clean slate,
Speaker 2: leadership reset, and today we're talking about something that a
Speaker 2: lot of leaders are either overusing, under using, or completely misunderstanding. AI.
Speaker 2: This episode is not about tools. It's not about prompts,
Speaker 2: it's not about chasing the newest shiny thing. This is
Speaker 2: about filters. Because great leaders don't make decisions faster, they
Speaker 2: make them cleaner and right now. AI can either help
Speaker 2: you clean up your thinking or amplify your worst habits.
Speaker 2: AI does not make decisions better leaders do. AI only
Speaker 2: reflects the quality of the question, the clarity of the standards,
Speaker 2: in the discipline of the person using it. If you
Speaker 2: don't have filters, AI becomes noise. If you do, it
Speaker 2: becomes leverage. So let me ground this in something familiar
Speaker 2: in aviation. We don't stare at every gauge equally. We
Speaker 2: use filters. What matters right now, what matters later, what's
Speaker 2: a warning versus what's background data? The cockpit gives you information,
Speaker 2: not judgment. AI is the same way. So today I
Speaker 2: want to give you a few practical AI filters you
Speaker 2: can use as a leader starting this week to make
Speaker 2: better decisions without drowning in data or outsourcing your thinking.
Speaker 2: The first filter the relevant filter. Every time AI gives
Speaker 2: you an answer, ask this, does this apply to my reality?
Speaker 2: AI loves general advice. It pulls from averages, trends in
Speaker 2: broad scenarios. Leadership doesn't happen in averages. It happens in
Speaker 2: your building, with your people under your constraints. If an
Speaker 2: answer sounds polished but ignores your culture, your budget, your
Speaker 2: risk tolerance, or your operational reality, it's irrelevant. Relevant beats
Speaker 2: impressive every time. The second filter the accountability filter, Ask this,
Speaker 2: who owns the outcome? If this goes wrong? AI never
Speaker 2: owns outcomes you do. If you start letting AI recommendations
Speaker 2: feel authoritative instead of advisory, you're drifting into passive leadership.
Speaker 2: Good leaders use AI like a whiteboard, not a boss.
Speaker 2: Run every suggestion through this lens. Am I comfortable standing
Speaker 2: in front of my team and saying this was my call?
Speaker 2: If the answer is no, stop right there. The third filter,
Speaker 2: the simplicity filter. AI can overcomplicate things fast. It loves layers,
Speaker 2: frameworks in multi step plans that look great on paper
Speaker 2: and fall apart on Monday morning. Leadership clarity wins by subtraction.
Speaker 2: Ask does this simplify the decision or bury it? If
Speaker 2: it adds friction, confusion, or unnecessary steps, it's not helping
Speaker 2: you lead. Strip it down, make it executable. The fourth filter,
Speaker 2: the human impact filter. AI does not feel consequences people do.
Speaker 2: Before acting on any AI assisted decision, ask how does
Speaker 2: this land with the humans involved? Morale, trust, credibility, and
Speaker 2: timing still matter. A technically correct decision delivered at the
Speaker 2: wrong moment can still fail. Leadership is not a math problem.
Speaker 2: It's a people problem with numbers attached. The fifth filter
Speaker 2: what I call the red key filter, and this is critical.
Speaker 2: Ask yourself, is this a routine decision or a high
Speaker 2: consequence one? Routine decisions can be AI assisted heavily. Scheduling ideas, draft, language,
Speaker 2: scenario brainstorming, no problem, red key moments, hiring, firing, discipline,
Speaker 2: crisis response, public statements. Those stay in human hands. AI
Speaker 2: can support your thinking but never replace your judgment. If
Speaker 2: the stakes are high, your presence must be higher. Now
Speaker 2: let me say this clearly. Using AI does not make
Speaker 2: you weak blindly following it does. Strong leaders don't fear tools,
Speaker 2: they control them. AI should slow you down where you
Speaker 2: tend to rush, and speed you up where you tend
Speaker 2: to stall. That's the balance. Here's a simple leadership reset
Speaker 2: exercise you can do this week. Take one decision you've
Speaker 2: been avoiding. Run it through AI, but don't ask what
Speaker 2: should I do? Ask instead? What am I not seeing?
Speaker 2: What risks am I underestimating? What assumptions am I making?
Speaker 2: Then apply your filters relevance, accountability, simplicity, human impact. You'll
Speaker 2: notice something interesting. The decision usually becomes clearer, not louder.
Speaker 2: AI didn't side for you, It helped you think better.
Speaker 2: That's the goal. As leaders are job in twenty twenty
Speaker 2: five is not to compete with AI, it's to stay
Speaker 2: human while using it wisely, clear thinking, clean decisions. Ownership
Speaker 2: stays with us. That's leadership. So as you step into
Speaker 2: this new year, don't chase faster decisions, chase better ones.
Speaker 2: Use AI as a filter, not a crutch. Keep your
Speaker 2: standards high, your judgment, sharp in your leadership personal That's
Speaker 2: how you reset without losing who you are. And for
Speaker 2: more go to Paulflavalito dot com. I have a ton
Speaker 2: of free documents that you can download today. This has
Speaker 2: been the seven minute Leadership podcast and I thank you
Speaker 2: for listening.
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