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Key Takeaways Everyone wants to use AI to move faster. But speed alone doesn’t create results. What really matters is clarity.
When AI starts making decisions faster than people can keep up, it’s not the technology that causes problems. It’s the lack of clear leadership systems to keep people aligned.
Not too long ago, I worked with a leadership team that had just launched a new AI dashboard. It was truly state-of-the-art and was designed to shorten meetings and speed up decisions. Instead, it caused massive amounts of confusion.
One reason for that was that different departments analyzed the same data through their own lenses. The result was that meetings actually became longer, instead of shorter, and no one could say who made the “final call.”
The truth of the matter was that their real problem wasn’t AI at all. It was the total absence of clarity.
This isn’t rare, by the way, because every day, more companies face the same problem where leaders think faster tools will produce faster results.
The truth is different.
AI systems don’t fix leadership issues. They reveal them. Without clear ownership, priorities and accountability in the first place, AI simply exposes what’s missing.
AI can’t solve problems that come from weak leadership structures, but it can — and does — shine a light on them.
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