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Key Takeaways AI agents act as digital twins, reclaiming time and compounding your cognition.
Clarity becomes the constraint: better instructions produce better systems and better leaders.
Traditional CEOs live and breathe delegation in every step of their work. They often find themselves presiding over delegation chains that branch into more delegation chains. Every decision spawns three meetings. Every meeting spawns five follow-ups.
I built my career inside that model, and I’ll be honest, it can get exhausting. A strictly delegation-based system works well when you’re just starting out, but at scale, it collapses under its own weight.
Luckily, we are now in the agentic AI era, and it’s giving executives the freedom and flexibility to do more than they’ve ever imagined.
I’ve adopted the mindset that AI agents are actually an extension of ourselves. We can build them into our business systems and orchestrate as if they are our digital twins. This shift has fundamentally changed my mindset and given me back my time, all while helping me be more productive.
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The shift from linear to parallel
Most executives still treat AI as a tool to delegate, not as infrastructure to build around. They’re asking AI to do tasks instead of designing systems that think alongside them, and it’s costing them as much time as before, if not more.
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