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<v Speaker 1>Helping leaders motivate their people to a higher level of

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<v Speaker 1>performance through strong human relations, team building, and golajving. This

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<v Speaker 1>is the seven Minute Leadership Podcast with your host Paul

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<v Speaker 1>fella Aledo.

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<v Speaker 2>Hello everyone, and welcome to the seven Minute Leadership Podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>It's episode five point fifty two. I just read an

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<v Speaker 2>article that stopped me in my tracks and I want

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<v Speaker 2>to share it with you. It came out of the

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<v Speaker 2>New York Times Deal Book Summit, where some of the

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<v Speaker 2>biggest global leaders, CEOs, politicians, and tech innovators gathered in

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<v Speaker 2>one room. The theme that dominated the event was artificial intelligence,

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<v Speaker 2>not as a passing trend, but as something reshaping the

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<v Speaker 2>world faster than entire industries can catch up. Here's the

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<v Speaker 2>core message of the article, AI is exploded, voting in scale,

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<v Speaker 2>investment and influence. The giants like Meta Alphabet, Microsoft and

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<v Speaker 2>Amazon are pouring tens of billions into AI infrastructure. Almost

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<v Speaker 2>fifty AI startups in the US alone have raised more

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<v Speaker 2>than one hundred million dollars this year. In the people

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<v Speaker 2>closest to the action, the ones with front row seats

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<v Speaker 2>are saying the same thing. AI is here, it is growing,

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<v Speaker 2>and there will be casualties. They are predicting headline blow ups,

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<v Speaker 2>major failures, and companies that miss time their moves by

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<v Speaker 2>inches not miles, and then lose everything. Larry Fink from

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<v Speaker 2>Blackrock set it directly. Some companies will win big, some

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<v Speaker 2>will fail loudly. Anthropics CEO warned that building AI is

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<v Speaker 2>so expensive and so complex that one misstep can sink

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<v Speaker 2>a company. Some players, in his words, are yoloing their

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<v Speaker 2>way through decisions that require precision. Others are taking a

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<v Speaker 2>more measured route because they know what's at stake. The

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<v Speaker 2>President of Taiwan spoke as well, reminding everyone that countries

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<v Speaker 2>able to control or influence AI will shape global power, economics, defense,

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<v Speaker 2>and innovation for decades. This wasn't hype. It felt like

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<v Speaker 2>a room full of people hitting a bell and saying leaders,

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<v Speaker 2>pay attention, because if you think AI is something that

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<v Speaker 2>sits to the side of your business or your leadership strategy,

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<v Speaker 2>these voices are telling you that is a dangerous assumption.

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<v Speaker 2>So let me bring this into our world as leaders.

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<v Speaker 2>Here is what this means for us. AI isn't a

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<v Speaker 2>tool anymore. It has become its own economy. The people

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<v Speaker 2>who know this best are reminding us that scale brings risk,

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<v Speaker 2>and risk brings opportunity. When you hear the world's most

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<v Speaker 2>influential leaders say the phrase headline blow ups that signals

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<v Speaker 2>a market correction coming, it means the companies guessing their

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<v Speaker 2>way forward will not survive. The ones taking careful, data

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<v Speaker 2>driven steady action will. This mirrors leadership perfectly. The leaders

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<v Speaker 2>who rush decisions, chase trends because everyone else is doing it,

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<v Speaker 2>or fall for the illusion that speed matters more than

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<v Speaker 2>precision usually hit the wall. The leaders who understand momentum, timing,

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<v Speaker 2>and patience become the steady hands the future depends on.

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<v Speaker 2>The article also raised a deeper point. If you were

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<v Speaker 2>not investing your time, your curiosity, in your leadership attention

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<v Speaker 2>into AI right now, you might be setting your organization

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<v Speaker 2>up to fall behind in a way that will be

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<v Speaker 2>hard to undo. This isn't about buying every tool you see.

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<v Speaker 2>This is about understanding what is coming. This is about

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<v Speaker 2>being ready when AI shapes your workforce, your customer expectations,

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<v Speaker 2>your operations, and your competition. Here are the leadership takeaways

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<v Speaker 2>I want you to have from this report. First, AI

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<v Speaker 2>demands responsible leadership. It is too big, too fast, and

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<v Speaker 2>too powerful to wing it, build slow, steady capability, Learn

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<v Speaker 2>enough that you can ask the right questions, bring experts

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<v Speaker 2>into your circle. The leaders at deal Book said the

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<v Speaker 2>danger isn't AI itself, it's the leaders who misjudge the timing. Second,

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<v Speaker 2>risk management matters more than ever. Anthropic talked about avoiding

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<v Speaker 2>timing and said the companies who get their pace wrong

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<v Speaker 2>will fail. That applies to you and me as well.

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<v Speaker 2>Leaders who set the right pace will win. Leaders who

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<v Speaker 2>rush will pay for it. Third, collaboration is becoming non negotiable.

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<v Speaker 2>When presidents and tech leaders call for global cooperation to

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<v Speaker 2>keep AI safe, it reflects something we all live every day.

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<v Speaker 2>The future will belong to the leaders who build alliances,

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<v Speaker 2>not silos. Bring AI conversations into your team, bring it

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<v Speaker 2>into your planning, bring it into your leadership table. Fourth,

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<v Speaker 2>AI is becoming a competitive advantage on a national scale.

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<v Speaker 2>Taiwan said, if the best models end up in the

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<v Speaker 2>hands of authoritarian governments, the United States will be outmatched

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<v Speaker 2>in intelligence, defense, economics, and research. Translate that to your world.

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<v Speaker 2>If your competitors adopt AI faster and smarter than you do,

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<v Speaker 2>they will outpace you in service, speed, precision, and decision making.

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<v Speaker 2>Fifth This is a moment of accountability for every leader.

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<v Speaker 2>AI will reshape how we work, how we run departments,

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<v Speaker 2>how we build strategy, and how we make decisions. You

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<v Speaker 2>don't need to be an expert. You need to be engaged.

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<v Speaker 2>You need to be curious. You need to give AI

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<v Speaker 2>a seat at your leadership table instead of waiting for

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<v Speaker 2>everyone else to solve it. So here is my message today.

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<v Speaker 2>AI is not waiting for you. It is not slowing down,

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<v Speaker 2>it is not settling. The biggest businesses and political leaders

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<v Speaker 2>on the planet are sounding the alarm that this boom

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<v Speaker 2>will create winners and losers. Your role as a leader

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<v Speaker 2>is to prepare, not panic, Learn, experiment, question, and position

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<v Speaker 2>yourself in your team for what is coming. The leaders

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<v Speaker 2>who treat AI like the next chapter of leadership will thrive.

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<v Speaker 2>The ones who treat it like a side project will

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<v Speaker 2>get surprised. And in leadership, surprise is always the enemy.

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<v Speaker 2>So as we wrap up today, remember this. Leaders always

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<v Speaker 2>have a responsibility to prepare for what is next, not

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<v Speaker 2>what is comfortable. If the biggest players in the world

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<v Speaker 2>are saying that AI will shape the winners and losers

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<v Speaker 2>of the next decade, we cannot afford to sit back

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<v Speaker 2>and wait. Engage with it now, Explore it, now, bring

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<v Speaker 2>it into the room. Now your future team will thank

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<v Speaker 2>you for it. This has been the seven minute Leadership

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<v Speaker 2>podcast and I thank you for listening.

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