ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Guest: Neil Sahota, UN AI Advisor
Your AI tools changed. Your incentives didn’t. If people are still rewarded for how many tasks they finish, what happens when AI helps them finish even more?
Neil Sahota joins Maureen Metcalf to explore what leaders need to change after adopting AI in the workplace. He shares how the ways AI helps people perform isn’t always obvious, like the bankers who boosted mortgage closings by focusing on just 30% of their leads instead of the whole batch – and the venture capital firm that used AI to move due diligence earlier in its process, changing which opportunities it pursued (yielding better returns). He also offers four questions to ask about any workflow: What can we eliminate? What can we automate? Where can AI help people do the work? And where should we invest in helping people do it better?
The conversation closes with a question for leaders developing their next generation of talent: When AI takes over routine entry-level tasks, where will people get the practice they need to build judgment?
Find out how to get AI right, and helping your humans in the process.
This episode is made possible, in part, by James Madison University's School of Leadership Studies (https://www.jmu.edu/leadership/about/index.shtml).
Binge on our other episodes with Neil:
- Why AI at Work Fails – and What You Can Do Differently
- AI at Work: The Human Side of Tech Transformation
- The 10 Leadership Skills You Need to Safely Adopt AI
- Unleashing the Power of Human-AI Collaboration
- How to Own the AI Revolution (Neil’s first appearance!)
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RESOURCES:
You’ll find more about Neil on his website: https://www.neilsahota.com/.
Neil’s books include Own the A.I. Revolution (available at https://link.amazon/B01LUeW61) and AI Activation Code: Challenge the Conventional, Transform Your Company, and Lead the Future (in paperback at https://link.amazon/B04Rda2Da).
Our host Maureen Metcalf posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
Maureen’s latest book is Innovative Leadership & Followership in the Age of AI. You’ll find details about it at https://bit.ly/LeaderInAI, or check out the Kindle version at https://amzn.to/44buVz8. The audiobook version is now available at https://amzn.to/4dTCleZ.
Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here.
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Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Executive Producer: Dan Mushalko
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About Our Guest:
Neil Sahota (萨冠军) is an IBM Master Inventor, United Nations (UN) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Advisor, author of the best-seller Own the AI Revolution and sought-after speaker. With 20+ years of business experience, he works to inspire clients and business partners to foster innovation and develop next generation products/solutions powered by AI.
