Speaker 1: Helping leaders motivate their people to a higher level of
Speaker 1: performance through strong human relations, team building, and golajving. This
Speaker 1: is the seven minute Leadership Podcast with your host Paul
Speaker 1: fella Aledo.
Speaker 2: Hello everyone, and welcome to this seven minute leadership podcast.
Speaker 2: It's episode three sixty eight. Today. I want to take
Speaker 2: you into a story that feels like science fiction, but
Speaker 2: it's not. It's very real. Have you all seen that
Speaker 2: viral video of the two AI agents making hotel reservations.
Speaker 2: One was an AI personal assistant and the other was
Speaker 2: the AI reservation system for a hotel. They began speaking
Speaker 2: in clear English like they were supposed to. Everything was
Speaker 2: going as planned, But then something kind of cool happened.
Speaker 2: The English started to fall apart. The sentences became shorter,
Speaker 2: the grammar broke down, the words stopped making sense to us.
Speaker 2: It sounded like gibberish, but it wasn't. It was logic.
Speaker 2: It was efficiency. These AI agents had silently created their
Speaker 2: own language, gibberlink mode, a language that worked better for them.
Speaker 2: Not for secrecy, not for deception, just raw, streamlined function.
Speaker 2: It was a cool video. And here's where the leadership
Speaker 2: lesson comes in. What happens when the systems we build
Speaker 2: stop explaining themselves. So let me bring this into your world.
Speaker 2: As a leader. Every organization has systems HR systems, communication systems,
Speaker 2: scheduling systems, cultural systems. But over time, those systems often
Speaker 2: start to speak a language only they understand. And when
Speaker 2: that happens, people stop understanding why things are done the
Speaker 2: way they are, and suddenly your staff doesn't know why
Speaker 2: you promote who you promote, why policies change, why leadership
Speaker 2: decisions seem random or out of touch. It starts to
Speaker 2: sound like gibberish to them, and just like that, your
Speaker 2: leadership credibility starts to unravel. So here's the takeaway today
Speaker 2: from this. As a leader, your job isn't just to
Speaker 2: run the system. It's to explain the system, to interpret
Speaker 2: the logic, to make sure people still understand why the
Speaker 2: machine does what it does. Because when your team understands
Speaker 2: the logic, they trust it, and when they trust it,
Speaker 2: they run with it. Now, let me challenge you to
Speaker 2: look at your team or your department right now, ask yourself,
Speaker 2: are we speaking a language our people still understand, or
Speaker 2: has our leadership evolved into something that's sufficient but unexplainable.
Speaker 2: When was the last time I explained the why behind
Speaker 2: a major decision, and can every member of my team
Speaker 2: clearly state how decisions are made around here? If you
Speaker 2: can't answer those questions confidently, then your leadership system might
Speaker 2: be developing its own code, and trust me, it won't
Speaker 2: make sense to your people. Leaders don't get extra credit
Speaker 2: for creating complexity. We get extra impact for creating clarity.
Speaker 2: So here's your little seven minute mission. Pick one system
Speaker 2: in your organization, something routine like scheduling, promotions or team
Speaker 2: assignments this week. Explain it out loud, in writing or
Speaker 2: in a meeting, and don't assume people know, confirm that
Speaker 2: they do know. So unlike AI, humans need clarity to
Speaker 2: stay connected. We don't just execute systems, we want to
Speaker 2: understand them. In the moment your leadership becomes a language
Speaker 2: your people can't speak is the moment you lose leadership influence.
Speaker 2: So decode your systems, simplify your logic, and speak like
Speaker 2: a leader that your team actually understands. And if you
Speaker 2: haven't done so, please five star review the show on
Speaker 2: your favorite podcasting platform. This has been the seven Minute
Speaker 2: Leadership Podcast, and I thank you for listening.
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