AI Won't Fix a Broken Culture, It Amplifies It
About this episode
The episode discusses how AI amplifies existing cultural issues in organizations and emphasizes the importance of leadership and communication.
Everyone is racing to adopt AI. Almost no one is asking the harder question: what kind of leader are you becoming as AI gets more powerful? Technology will not fix a broken culture or poor leadership. It amplifies whatever is already there. In this conversation, David Carr sits down with two guests who think about this differently. Christopher Skinner, founder of Stealth Dog Labs, works at the intersection of AI, cognition, and leadership. Chris Wessling, The Process Dude, helps leaders escape the day to day by building systems that scale. Christopher explains why AI is running on the wrong specifications, why it was never designed to listen, and the three legs every healthy relationship needs: safety, challenge, and investment. Chris brings the process lens, if there is pain in a business, there is a process problem, and shares how one discovery conversation uncovered a 700,000 dollar fix hiding in a company's estimates. Then Christopher shows how the words a company uses can reveal where it is really heading, sometimes years before the numbers do. The takeaway: before you lean on AI, get an honest baseline of your culture, your communication, and your decision making. Then the…
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Host: David W. Carr
Guests: Christopher Skinner, Chris Wessling
Topics covered
- AI
- leadership
- business culture
- communication
- process improvement
Keywords
- AI
- leadership
- business culture
- communication
- process improvement
- organizational health
- decision making
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Stealth Dog Labs
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