# Kevin Eikenberry

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Can AI Do This? You're Asking the Wrong Question - Thoughts from Kevin

"Can AI do this?" It's a question I hear all the time, and I've certainly asked it. The answer is often yes. But the most important question isn't whether it can. It's whether we want it to. In this episode, I share the four questions I ask myself before handing work to AI, and that I urge you to …

Leading with Wisdom in an Age of Algorithms with Johan Roos

How can leaders use AI without allowing it to erode the human skills that make leadership effective? In this episode, Kevin talks with Johan Roos about the choice leaders face between amplification and erosion as AI becomes more integrated into our work. Johan identifies five essential human capabi…

Are Your Priorities Hidden? - Thoughts from Kevin

You have priorities. But if your team doesn't know what they are, they're not really priorities at all. You might have put them in a memo, an email, or on a slide. That's not what your people remember. They remember what they see you doing every day: what you ask about, what you praise, what gets …

Improving Your Leadership Intelligence with Caroline Webb

How can leaders make smarter decisions, motivate people, and stay effective when things get difficult? Kevin is joined by Caroline Webb to explore three dimensions of leadership intelligence: deliberate wisdom, intrinsic inspiration, and reasoned resilience. She explains why better decisions begin …

Leaders as Students of Human Nature - Thoughts from Kevin

How well do you understand the people you lead? Leadership is getting results with and through other people. There is no leadership without people. Yet people are often the hardest thing to study, because human nature is all around us. This episode starts a short series on the leader as a student…

Harnessing Human-AI Collaboration at Work with Paula Goldman

How can leaders get the best from AI without losing the human things that make teams work? In this episode, Kevin talks with Paula Goldman about what it really means to "manage the machine" and why successful AI adoption depends as much on people as it does on technology. They discuss how leaders c…

Do You Have to Be a Tech Person to Lead? - Thoughts from Kevin

Do you have to be a tech person to lead today? No. But you do have to be a student. You don't have to master every tool. Technology keeps changing, though, and it shapes how your team communicates, how the work gets done, and what's possible for us to accomplish. In this episode, the second in my …

Leading Generation Z with Tim Elmore

Are you making assumptions about Gen Z (or other generations, for that matter) that could be holding your team back? Kevin sits down with Tim Elmore to discuss how leaders can better understand, connect with, and develop the newest generation in the workforce. Drawing from his research, Tim challen…

Leaders as Students of Context - Thoughts from Kevin

How often do you answer a question with "well, it depends"? That moment is about context, and most of us skip right past it. In this episode of my Leader as Student series, I share five ways to become a student of context: look closer, observe without judging, look at history, ask what's different…

Transforming Your Business into an AI-Forward Company with Brian Solis and Dave Wright

Are you using AI to transform your organization or simply doing the same things faster? As a leader, how do you move beyond automation to unlock opportunities you haven't even imagined yet? In this episode, Kevin is joined by Brian Solis and Dave Wright to discuss why successful AI transformation r…