13. CRIT™: Harnessing Abraham Lincoln to Write Your AI Manifesto
About this episode
Geoff Gilmore discusses how AI can serve as a strategic advisor and the importance of structured listening in leadership.
In our last episode, he showed how vulnerability and courage turned skepticism into company-wide adoption. But in this CRIT™ session, the challenge was different: how do you keep excitement from stalling out in confusion? Through CRIT™, AI acted as a strategic advisor to his executive team. It surfaced the need for structured listening, a weekly AI narrative, and clear success gates. It pushed him to elevate a “big bet” team into a startup studio — not just to use AI, but to sell with AI. And then came the extraordinary moment: Abraham Lincoln, on his AI board, challenged him to write a human constitution for AI : “Man shall not be replaced, but released into his greatest potential.” The clarity that emerged in minutes would’ve taken months of consultants. His reaction said it all: “Outstanding, mind blowing at times.” Today’s AI-Driven Leader is Geoff Gilmore, President, CEO, and Director of Worthington Steel .
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- 9. CRIT™: Building Your Leadership Playbook for Growth
- 8. Scaling Your Leadership Team Using AI with Brian Lang
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