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 the seven Minute Leadership Podcast.
Speaker 2: It's episode five point fifty two. I just read an
Speaker 2: article that stopped me in my tracks and I want
Speaker 2: to share it with you. It came out of the
Speaker 2: New York Times Deal Book Summit, where some of the
Speaker 2: biggest global leaders, CEOs, politicians, and tech innovators gathered in
Speaker 2: one room. The theme that dominated the event was artificial intelligence,
Speaker 2: not as a passing trend, but as something reshaping the
Speaker 2: world faster than entire industries can catch up. Here's the
Speaker 2: core message of the article, AI is exploded, voting in scale,
Speaker 2: investment and influence. The giants like Meta Alphabet, Microsoft and
Speaker 2: Amazon are pouring tens of billions into AI infrastructure. Almost
Speaker 2: fifty AI startups in the US alone have raised more
Speaker 2: than one hundred million dollars this year. In the people
Speaker 2: closest to the action, the ones with front row seats
Speaker 2: are saying the same thing. AI is here, it is growing,
Speaker 2: and there will be casualties. They are predicting headline blow ups,
Speaker 2: major failures, and companies that miss time their moves by
Speaker 2: inches not miles, and then lose everything. Larry Fink from
Speaker 2: Blackrock set it directly. Some companies will win big, some
Speaker 2: will fail loudly. Anthropics CEO warned that building AI is
Speaker 2: so expensive and so complex that one misstep can sink
Speaker 2: a company. Some players, in his words, are yoloing their
Speaker 2: way through decisions that require precision. Others are taking a
Speaker 2: more measured route because they know what's at stake. The
Speaker 2: President of Taiwan spoke as well, reminding everyone that countries
Speaker 2: able to control or influence AI will shape global power, economics, defense,
Speaker 2: and innovation for decades. This wasn't hype. It felt like
Speaker 2: a room full of people hitting a bell and saying leaders,
Speaker 2: pay attention, because if you think AI is something that
Speaker 2: sits to the side of your business or your leadership strategy,
Speaker 2: these voices are telling you that is a dangerous assumption.
Speaker 2: So let me bring this into our world as leaders.
Speaker 2: Here is what this means for us. AI isn't a
Speaker 2: tool anymore. It has become its own economy. The people
Speaker 2: who know this best are reminding us that scale brings risk,
Speaker 2: and risk brings opportunity. When you hear the world's most
Speaker 2: influential leaders say the phrase headline blow ups that signals
Speaker 2: a market correction coming, it means the companies guessing their
Speaker 2: way forward will not survive. The ones taking careful, data
Speaker 2: driven steady action will. This mirrors leadership perfectly. The leaders
Speaker 2: who rush decisions, chase trends because everyone else is doing it,
Speaker 2: or fall for the illusion that speed matters more than
Speaker 2: precision usually hit the wall. The leaders who understand momentum, timing,
Speaker 2: and patience become the steady hands the future depends on.
Speaker 2: The article also raised a deeper point. If you were
Speaker 2: not investing your time, your curiosity, in your leadership attention
Speaker 2: into AI right now, you might be setting your organization
Speaker 2: up to fall behind in a way that will be
Speaker 2: hard to undo. This isn't about buying every tool you see.
Speaker 2: This is about understanding what is coming. This is about
Speaker 2: being ready when AI shapes your workforce, your customer expectations,
Speaker 2: your operations, and your competition. Here are the leadership takeaways
Speaker 2: I want you to have from this report. First, AI
Speaker 2: demands responsible leadership. It is too big, too fast, and
Speaker 2: too powerful to wing it, build slow, steady capability, Learn
Speaker 2: enough that you can ask the right questions, bring experts
Speaker 2: into your circle. The leaders at deal Book said the
Speaker 2: danger isn't AI itself, it's the leaders who misjudge the timing. Second,
Speaker 2: risk management matters more than ever. Anthropic talked about avoiding
Speaker 2: timing and said the companies who get their pace wrong
Speaker 2: will fail. That applies to you and me as well.
Speaker 2: Leaders who set the right pace will win. Leaders who
Speaker 2: rush will pay for it. Third, collaboration is becoming non negotiable.
Speaker 2: When presidents and tech leaders call for global cooperation to
Speaker 2: keep AI safe, it reflects something we all live every day.
Speaker 2: The future will belong to the leaders who build alliances,
Speaker 2: not silos. Bring AI conversations into your team, bring it
Speaker 2: into your planning, bring it into your leadership table. Fourth,
Speaker 2: AI is becoming a competitive advantage on a national scale.
Speaker 2: Taiwan said, if the best models end up in the
Speaker 2: hands of authoritarian governments, the United States will be outmatched
Speaker 2: in intelligence, defense, economics, and research. Translate that to your world.
Speaker 2: If your competitors adopt AI faster and smarter than you do,
Speaker 2: they will outpace you in service, speed, precision, and decision making.
Speaker 2: Fifth This is a moment of accountability for every leader.
Speaker 2: AI will reshape how we work, how we run departments,
Speaker 2: how we build strategy, and how we make decisions. You
Speaker 2: don't need to be an expert. You need to be engaged.
Speaker 2: You need to be curious. You need to give AI
Speaker 2: a seat at your leadership table instead of waiting for
Speaker 2: everyone else to solve it. So here is my message today.
Speaker 2: AI is not waiting for you. It is not slowing down,
Speaker 2: it is not settling. The biggest businesses and political leaders
Speaker 2: on the planet are sounding the alarm that this boom
Speaker 2: will create winners and losers. Your role as a leader
Speaker 2: is to prepare, not panic, Learn, experiment, question, and position
Speaker 2: yourself in your team for what is coming. The leaders
Speaker 2: who treat AI like the next chapter of leadership will thrive.
Speaker 2: The ones who treat it like a side project will
Speaker 2: get surprised. And in leadership, surprise is always the enemy.
Speaker 2: So as we wrap up today, remember this. Leaders always
Speaker 2: have a responsibility to prepare for what is next, not
Speaker 2: what is comfortable. If the biggest players in the world
Speaker 2: are saying that AI will shape the winners and losers
Speaker 2: of the next decade, we cannot afford to sit back
Speaker 2: and wait. Engage with it now, Explore it, now, bring
Speaker 2: it into the room. Now your future team will thank
Speaker 2: you for it. This has been the seven minute Leadership
Speaker 2: podcast and I thank you for listening.
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