“You probably don’t even see when work is committed to your organization. And if you can’t see it, you can’t manage it—let alone organize it, sequence it, and have any assurance that your resources can complete it.”
“I want you to act as an aggressive growth-minded board member with deep expertise in company turnarounds. Attached is the board deck for this business. It’s not doing well and needs to be turned around. I’d like you to identify the top five questions that you would be asking the CEO during this meeting. Please list them in order of priority, as we only have one hour for the review, and I want to make sure I’m asking the most important questions first.”
― The AI-Driven Leader: Harnessing AI to Make Faster, Smarter Decisions
― The AI-Driven Leader: Harnessing AI to Make Faster, Smarter Decisions
“Acting as my Thought Partner, help me identify three to five questions I can bring to my next series of one-on-ones with my direct reports. My goal is to act as a great coach, focusing our conversation on: 1. Ensuring they are clear on where their focus needs to be this week to drive progress toward our thirty-day milestones. 2. Helping them think through the challenges they might encounter this week and how to proactively address them. 3. Raising their performance this week so they continue to develop and grow. Ask me one question at a time to gather the information you need, and then generate a list of questions for me to consider.”
― The AI-Driven Leader: Harnessing AI to Make Faster, Smarter Decisions
― The AI-Driven Leader: Harnessing AI to Make Faster, Smarter Decisions
“Attached is our strategic plan. The next step is to identify the specific progress we need to make for each item on the plan in the next thirty days to be on track for our targets. Ask me one question at a time to help gather this information, and then generate an executive summary I can send to my team so we are aligned.”
― The AI-Driven Leader: Harnessing AI to Make Faster, Smarter Decisions
― The AI-Driven Leader: Harnessing AI to Make Faster, Smarter Decisions
“Their job is not to do everything on their job description. It’s to deliver results in alignment with your culture. That will only happen when they focus on the 20% that drives the majority of the results.”
― The AI-Driven Leader: Harnessing AI to Make Faster, Smarter Decisions
― The AI-Driven Leader: Harnessing AI to Make Faster, Smarter Decisions
“The more you ask, the more thinking leverage your people will bring you.”
― The AI-Driven Leader: Harnessing AI to Make Faster, Smarter Decisions
― The AI-Driven Leader: Harnessing AI to Make Faster, Smarter Decisions
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