Insights on AI, Leadership & Productivity
Practical perspectives for senior leaders on AI productivity, accountability, and team performance. Written by Chris McIntyre, CSP.
When AI adoption stalls inside a company, leadership almost always misreads why. The assumption is that the resisters are the laggards, the less capable, the people who can't keep up. So the response ...
There's a quiet reshuffling happening in what makes a leader valuable, and most people are watching the wrong part of it. The headlines are about which jobs AI will replace. The more useful question, ...
Watch a senior leader use AI for the first time and you'll almost always see the same thing. They type a short question, the way they'd type into a search bar. "Summarize trends in our industry." "Wri...
Most AI pilots die quietly, and they almost always die the same way. Not because the technology failed. Because when it came time to show results, the team walked into the room with the wrong numbers....
"AI Chief of Staff" is the phrase of the year, and most of what's written about it is useless. It's pitched as a magic role your AI can play, usually followed by a prompt template you're supposed to p...
The AI error that will hurt you isn't the obvious one. It's not the hallucinated statistic that's clearly absurd, or the broken link, or the fact that reads wrong the moment you see it. Those get caug...
Most AI rollouts try to automate tasks. The leaders getting real cycle-time wins do something smarter. They redesign handoffs.
Here's the distinction, because it's the whole game. A task is one perso...
A CEO told me recently that his company had "fully adopted AI." I asked how he knew. He said they'd hit 94% license activation, everyone had been through training, and usage was up and to the right. I...
Here's a pattern I've started warning executives about, because almost no one sees it coming. You bring in AI to save time. Six months later, you're busier than ever, and you can't quite explain why.
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Sit in on almost any leadership meeting and watch what it produces. Sixty minutes of good discussion, a few heads nodding, a vague sense that something was agreed. Then everyone walks out and reconstr...
Every executive I work with has tried to "get good at AI" the same way. They collect prompts. They save a swipe file of clever instructions, bookmark a few threads, maybe buy a prompt pack. Three week...
Every executive I've worked with this year has asked some version of the same question. "Which AI should we actually use? ChatGPT? Claude? Copilot? Something else?"
Two years ago, the question didn't...