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Geoff Woods

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#1 Bestselling Author, The AI-Driven Leader
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The top three ways a leader can use AI as a thought partner: CRIT, challenger, and customer.

First, CRIT for strategic thinking. That alone takes the first result to an entirely different level.

Second, the challenger. I don't just worry about the best that I can do. I leverage AI to go for the best that can be done. A world-class challenger stress tests the sufficiency of a plan, calls out biases and assumptions, and shows me where my thinking might be weak.

Third, once I agree with the output, I have it simulate the customer. An end customer, an internal employee, a key stakeholder, reacting to the plan from their perspective and making the output even stronger.

All of this can be done in a very short period of time. And it takes a leader's results to an entirely different level.

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Step one to becoming an AI-driven leader: grab two sticky notes and a Sharpie.

On sticky note one, write: how can AI help me do this? On sticky note two, write: Context, Role, Interview, Task. CRIT.

Because it's not about AI. It's about elevating who you are and who you can become. Most people are hunting for the right AI use case and don't know where to start. But you're already doing things every single day that matter. That first sticky note on your desk is the reminder that this is the use case.

Then open whatever LLM you use. Write the context and describe the situation. Give it a role, the kind of expert you want it to be. Have it interview you, three to five questions one at a time, to gain deeper context. Then let it accomplish the task.

You'll have one of the most powerful experiences you've ever had with AI.

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Before investing in another AI tool, do this.

Leaders are spending so much time dabbling in all these different tools and realizing very little of it is actually driving strategic value.

Before you go looking for any other tools, go to the large language model you're already using and start engaging it as a thought partner on your most critical business problems and your most ambitious goals.

There are very few tools that will bring more value to you professionally, or even personally, than engaging AI for strategic thinking on the most important areas of your business or life. That will drive far higher results than investing in learning any other tool.

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For the leaders not using AI yet, it's usually one of three things. They don't know where to start. They don't think it's their job. Or no one has shown them how.

It feels natural to delegate this to IT or bring in a consultant to do it for you. The real shift is realizing this is actually your job. This isn't about technology. It's about changing how you win as an organization, and how you win hearts and minds.

Your job isn't building agents or restructuring processes. Your job is to cast a greater vision for the future, define the strategy for how you'll win in an AI-driven world, and use it enough that you can lead by example and lead change throughout the organization.

That's what it means to be an AI-driven leader.

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These are the most valuable things I think leadership TEAMS need to know about AI. by @geoffwoods

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Step one to becoming an AI-driven leader: recognize it's not about AI. It's about enhancing you.

Most people start this journey hunting for use cases. The realization that changes everything is that you are the use case. So much of what you do in your job is not a reflection of who you are. It's you acting like a machine.

Turn the tables. Use this technology to interview you: to understand your greatest strengths, and to harness them on the most critical pieces of your job, in alignment with company goals, until AI turns those strengths into superpowers.

That's where I'd start.

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Most leaders are thinking backwards about agentic AI.

Your job as a leader is to connect the dots, not to build the connections. You don't need the skill of building and deploying agents. You do need the foundation: what agentic AI is, how it works, and most importantly, how to make sure that when it's used, it's a priority that drives value instead of a distraction.

That's exactly what we'll be working on with leadership teams at our Team Accelerator in Austin, October 26 through 28: harnessing agentic AI in a way that drives ROI and makes the value of your people go up at least 10x.

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Harnessing AI as a leader Tier List by @geoffwoods

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Your company doesn't have an AI problem. It has a leadership problem.

Every leadership team is mandating AI right now. Very few are personally leading by example, using it every single day to elevate how they perform. And behavior change is nearly impossible when leaders lead with hypocrisy instead of example.

With one major fast food company, we didn't even start with AI. We asked their leaders: what's the biggest problem you're facing that, if solved, unlocks a huge level of growth? Then we pulled up whatever AI tool they wanted and showed them how to use it as a thought partner. How to get AI asking them questions to help them problem solve, instead of treating it like Google or an email assistant.

Start there. Get your leaders using AI to elevate how they think. That changes everything.

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What if the best way to use AI is to stop asking it questions?

I sat down with Jay Schwedelson and shared the shift that changes everything about how leaders use AI: stop treating it like a search engine and have it interview you. That's the I in CRIT™: Context, Role, Interview, Task.

When AI interviews you, it asks about the constraint you forgot to mention. The stakeholder you were avoiding. The assumption you haven't said out loud in two years. Your answers become context no prompt could have contained, because you didn't know you knew it.

The tool is the same. The posture is everything.

Full conversation with Jay is out now.

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In a world where answers become free, your ability to think strategically is what matters. How much time are you taking to ask the right questions and strategically think? Here’s what this is look like for me this summer… I ended up using AI in a way I did not expect. by @geoffwoods

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Most CFOs ask AI the same three questions. How do I cut expenses. How does this improve profitability. How does this create value.

Fair questions. They are also the shortcut.

So I asked John McMonagle, CFO of Unanet, what he would recommend instead. His answer started somewhere less comfortable. Adopt AI yourself. Most CFOs have a long tenure and did not grow up with this. They are only learning it now.

And adoption does not mean writing better emails.

The shortcut optimizes the business you already have. The longer evolution builds the one you do not have yet.

Full episode with John is live on The AI-Driven Leader Podcast.

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