September 1, 2025 • 29 mins
Are you leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance your leadership, or are you getting left behind? The technology revolution isn't waiting for anyone, and leaders who resist adapting to these powerful new tools are choosing obsolescence.
In this action-packed episode, I reveal the six essential ways every leader should be using AI tools right now. These aren't futuristic concepts—they're practical applications already transforming how the most effective leaders operate. From automatically archiving every meeting with voice recognition that identifies each speaker, to preparing for client interactions with comprehensive research, to enhancing presentations with compelling data and stories, AI offers unprecedented advantages to those willing to embrace it.
What separates this approach from typical AI discussions is the focus on leadership enhancement rather than technological showmanship. I don't care which specific tools you use—whether it's Claude for writing, Gemini for research, or ChatGPT for voice interaction—what matters is incorporating these capabilities into your leadership workflow. Each application comes with practical examples from my own experience leading a consulting firm and working with executive teams at major corporations.
The most powerful insight? AI serves as an always-available strategic advisor, providing objective feedback on your work, generating deep research in minutes instead of days, and even offering personalized coaching for specific leadership challenges. While these tools occasionally "hallucinate" or provide inaccurate information, simple verification strategies ensure you get reliable insights while saving countless hours.
Ready to transform how you lead? Listen now and discover how to organize meetings, prepare more effectively, enhance presentations, analyze your work, gain strategic perspective, and receive personalized coaching—all through the power of artificial intelligence.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How to use AI to upgrade your ability to lead
others.
Are you doing these five thingsright now, or you can just get
left behind?
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Okay, welcome into the Lead in30 podcast.
My name's Russ Hill.
In less than 30 minutes, we'llgive you a framework, a best
practice, an example, a storyfrom our consulting and
leadership development work thatyou can incorporate in the way
that you lead others.
If you can upgrade the way thatyou lead others, it affects
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every aspect of your life.
I make my living coaching,consulting senior executive
teams at some of the world'sbiggest companies.
You can find out more about ourfirm, lone Rock leadership, at
our website, lonerockio.
Okay, let's get into AI.
And I know like when I hearthose two letters right now,
quite honestly I almost roll myeyes a little bit, because
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there's just discussioneverywhere around AI and yet
we're all at different levels.
We're all at different placeswhen it comes to how we're
utilizing it in leading teams.
So this is not a podcast aboutthe latest and greatest app
Gemini versus Grok, versus chat,gpt, chat, gpt five versus this
(02:02):
version, or whatever it mightbe at the time that you listen
to this episode.
That's not what this this isabout.
What this is about is utilizingthe technology advances that
are happening very quickly inorder to strengthen your ability
to lead others.
Are you actually using thoseapps and others in your daily
routine?
Because if you're not, you'regetting left behind.
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It's, it's happening, and so ifyou're dipping your toe in it a
little bit, that's not going towork.
These tools are revolutionaryand they're transformative in
their ability to help us be moreeffective in leading others,
and so I'm going to give youjust five basic things that I
want you to look at and listento this checklist and say, okay,
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yep, I'm doing that.
Nope, I'm not doing that, neverknew about that, never thought
about it.
Some of these, some of you aredoing others, you're not doing
any of this stuff, so let's just, let's get into it.
Okay, number one oh, and, bythe way, before I even get into
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the list, well, and I'll talkabout this as we go through the
episode, I don't care what toolyou're using.
I'm going to advocate differenttools based on different needs
or their strengths, but this isvery fluid.
So at the time that thispodcast episode is being pushed
out to the market, that well, bythe time you listen to this,
these things might've changedjust a little bit.
Specific apps because these appsare jumping and leapfrogging
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each other from week to week ormonth to month.
All right, so, number oneorganize and archive meetings.
Are you doing that?
Like, let me give you anexample of how this works and
and this I've totally changedhow I show up at virtual and
in-person meetings now.
So in a virtual meeting, do youhave a note taker and and there
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are all kinds, there are allkinds of annoying one annoying
note takers out there that areputting things into the chat and
that you can, whatever.
No, you turn off all of thosefunctionalities because it's
distracting to the meeting.
And these AI tools, they allwant to insert themselves and
have pop-ups and do all thisstuff in the chat and whatever.
You don't want any of that.
It's so distracting to others.
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So you turn off all of thoseoptions in in the uh, in the
preferences or the settings.
All you want the AI tool to dois you want it to sync with your
calendar and any virtualmeeting invite that you have, it
automatically shows up.
So every internal meeting thatI have with different employees
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or members of the leadershipteam in our firm, when I log in,
my note taker is there.
I happen to use otterio, t, t,e, rio.
It is absolutely the best.
Now, again, this changes and itgoes back and forth, but we have
an account for everybody on ourteam.
Otterio, its ability to juststay in the back Now it's
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constantly trying, trying tohave a bigger presence, and so
I've got to adjust the settingsconstantly to say, okay, nope, I
don't want you putting anythingin the chat, nope, I don't want
you doing, you know, sending anemail to everyone after the
meeting.
I don't want any of that.
That's annoying.
So I turn off all thosesettings.
All I have it simply do is syncwith my outlook calendar and
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then it doesn't matter if it'steams, webex, um, zoom, any of
that.
It pops up and it just sitsthere by itself and it doesn't.
Nobody even notices that it'sthere.
It just shows up as aparticipant says Russ's note
taker, or something like that.
That's all it does, becauseI've turned everything off and
it's recording the whole meeting.
It captures a screenshot of anyslide that is shown about every
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two to five to 10 minutes, Idon't know how frequent it takes
a screenshot of theparticipants, whoever's sharing.
You know their camera so I canremember who was in the meeting,
what they look like, whatslides were shared.
It automatically captures ascreenshot.
Every time you advance a slide,it captures it.
Every time you advance a slide,it captures it.
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So I have that in a folder onthe internet in our file
structure.
Every internal meeting andevery meeting with the client,
every meeting with the vendor,every meeting with anybody.
I've got an archive of all ofit.
And, by the way, I can use anAI assistant inside of Otter.
You can use whatever tool youwant to.
I don't care, I just want youdoing this.
I can use an AI assistant to goand say, hey, tell me about my
last meeting with thisparticular client, what was the
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date that we said the upcomingmeeting was going to be at?
Five seconds later, it gives methe response hey, in my last
meetings with this department,we talked about whatever.
Can you remind me of what theaction items were?
Boom, it spits it out.
It's insanely efficient.
So now that's where I startedwas having that present.
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All my virtual meetings.
Now I use the phone app andrecord every meeting I'm in.
There are occasions when Iforget, I get distracted.
I don't do it.
But like, for instance, we hadan offsite with our leadership
team just a few days ago andI've got my phone out there in
the middle of the room and I'mrecording.
And most of these apps havelike a three or four hour limit,
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so I'm recording.
By the way, I'm not on my phonein the meeting.
That's a bad peeve, right.
So it's sitting there and it'srecording the meeting.
That's a pet peeve, right.
So it's sitting there and it'srecording and it it has now
voice recognition software towhere it now knows over a series
of meetings.
It doesn't do this instantly,but because it's heard these
voices in virtual meetings indifferent places, it knows that
paul is saying that, it knowsthat brent is saying that.
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It knows that whomever like it,it automatically tells me who
said what.
That's crazy that thattechnology exists.
So I've got the whole offsite.
And, by the way, you can havesomebody else do this, an
assistant, um, you could havesomebody on the communications
team.
If you're a big, if you're abig organization, um, you can do
it whatever you want to do it,and and so we at our firm we
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typically have two or threepeople that are recording every
meeting we go to a clientmeeting with.
This happened a few weeks ago.
We were at a uh, well, aprospective client, uh, an
organization flew out, um, agroup from our firm.
They wanted us to meet withthem for a couple of hours and
one of the members of our teamwe'd plan this in advance just
put their phone there and juststrategically was re, was
recording that, just as notes,you know, and we would never
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share that publicly, obviously,and they're all kind of laws
about that, making sure thatpeople know that meetings are
recorded.
If you're ever going to sharethat stuff publicly, we're
obviously not going to do that.
This is all behind the scenesjust taking notes, um, just like
having the assistant in theroom that's typing up, except
this is way more efficient andit automatically summarizes it
and it's cheaper.
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So are you organizing andarchiving your meetings in
person and virtually?
Why aren't you doing that?
I go to meetings all the time.
Nobody's got a note taker.
Nobody's doing it.
Are you crazy?
You can you, why?
Oh my gosh.
So let's get that.
That's number one.
You've got to be doing that.
I don't care what app you use,but you need to be doing that.
Number two prepare for meetings.
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This is insanely valuable.
So now that you've got thatarchive of all the meetings, you
can go and you can say, ok,because I'm getting ready now
for the next offsite.
Hey, give me AI.
And you're using whatever notetaker AI tool.
You go in and it's got all thedata.
And, by the way, every I'm notjust doing that with our meeting
, we're doing it with differentpeople at our firm.
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They're recording theirmeetings with prospective
clients, with new members of theteam, whatever, so it's all
there in the library and so youcan say hey, for our upcoming
marketing offsite.
Will you review the discussionfrom the last one and then the
calls that I've had in the lastcouple of weeks with X, you know
, with the head of marketing andthis person, whatever.
You put their names in and giveme a suggested agenda of what
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we ought to be talking about, orthat would be good for me to
follow up.
Oh my gosh, is this valuable?
So that's one way that you'reusing it to prepare for meetings
.
Another way some of you aredoing this right, you have a
meeting with a prospectiveclient or a client and you want
to walk into the meetinginformed, and so you're using
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chat, gpt or gemini or whateverthe tool is.
This is outside of your meeting.
Your, your um, meeting notetaker, ai tool.
You're um, you're doingresearch.
Tell me about this executive.
Tell me about this company.
Tell me about what's been whatwhat's been in the news, uh,
with this company for the lastfew weeks.
Tell me about this executive.
Tell me about this company.
Tell me about what's beenwhat's been in the news with
this company for the last fewweeks.
Tell me about how they'restacking up against competitors,
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whatever.
Now, an important disclaimer AIis wrong.
It gets the wrong data.
It has what they callhallucinations that's a
technical term for it sosometimes it's just like a human
being or somebody.
Right, it's going to sometimesgive you the wrong data.
So don't go get ready for thatmeeting and type it into an AI
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tool in the back of an Uber,headed over to it or whatever,
and you don't verify it.
I might put the exact samequestion into another AI tool.
I put it in Gemini, which isGoogle's AI tool, and I also put
it in, uh, in chat, gpt.
Um, if it's really importantthat I've got the information,
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or I do it two days in a row,because these things hallucinate
or they give you bad data.
Oh, and a key thing to do thatthat I've learned a trick is all
.
After it gives me back the dataI've asked for, I'll type back
in.
Will you double check and makesure that everything that you
just provided me with isaccurate and up to date?
And a lot of times you'll go,oh, thanks for asking, actually,
this.
I'm like, oh my gosh, you gaveme, like, the revenue numbers
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from three years ago, or yougave me this that's bogus, or it
will make crap up.
That's the danger of it, right?
That's why some people arescared.
They go, oh my gosh, I don'twant to use AI.
Well, okay, yes, it has, it hasits weaknesses, but that is the
outlier.
And as long as you're usingsafeguards for it, then you're
good.
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So why would you avoid the AIaltogether?
Like, that's insane.
It's like someone saying Idon't think I remember when I,
when, when the first iPhone cameout and they had iTunes on it
right Cause that's how welistened to music back in that
day, right After Napster andwhatever else then iTunes was it
, and you bought songs.
And I remember the first iPhonecame out and they had iTunes in
it and a little earphone jackand I thought this is absolutely
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stupid.
Like I cannot even believe thatSteve jobs at the time, right,
stupid.
Like I cannot even believe thatSteve jobs at the time, right,
I cannot believe that Steve jobsand Apple believe that people
are going to listen to music ontheir phone.
That is so stupid and I refuseto do it.
Um, yeah, I think I was.
I think I was wrong.
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And if you're a hold out on AI,you're wrong.
Get ready to be left behind.
So prepare for meetings.
Lots more that I could be saidabout that.
That could be said about that.
Um, you can use it for internalmeetings.
You can use it for externalmeetings.
Any of that, okay, and andthese next bullet points that I
go through these next few itemson our list of five things that
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how ai can help upgrade you as aleader.
You'll see that there's overlap.
And so number three.
So, number one organize andarchive meetings, past meetings.
Number two prepare for upcomingmeetings.
Number three enhance yourreports and presentations.
You're using it for this right,so you've got a meeting where
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you're doing an hour longwhatever, and there's all kinds
of ways you can use it toenhance.
Hey, give me a story that makesthis point.
Hey, I need some data that'sfrom these types of sources.
And the better the prompt right, you're figuring this out as
you use AI, right, the bettermore specific the prompt, the
better the information it is itgives back to you.
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So if I say, give me some datato help me in this meeting, the
data is going to be okay.
If I say, give me reports thathave quantitative information
from the last 12 months in thisspecific industry, from
reputable reports, so I'll giveyou an example, example of this,
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actually they'll help you.
So I was, uh, I was looking for,I was typing into an AI tool
the other day Um, what some ofthe most talked about topics are
in leadership and leadershipspaces right now.
I got checked this all the time, like making sure that we're
not getting left behind onsomething.
So I'm in one of the, the, the,the popular AI tools, and I'm
like, hey, give me three of themost talked about topics in
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leadership development right now, and it spit out three topics
that I was like really Like thatdoes seem outdated and it was
quoting McKinsey and quotingKorn Ferry and some of these big
, big firms that are a littlebit slow to move in when it
comes to current trends.
Right, they're not as nimbleand scrappy as smaller firms
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like ours, but they're huge.
Like these are the beast of theindustry, right, and we don't
compete directly with themthey're in a different space,
but but in the work that they dothey're huge.
So it's quoting McKinsey andKorn Ferry and Boston and all
these different consultinggroups and you know Harvard
Business Review and whatever,and I'm thinking I think these
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are outdated.
So I said, no, don't look atthe institutional research or
major strategic consulting firmsas your source.
Go to like X or Twitter, go tomessage boards, go to business
publications, more like WallStreet Journal and different
things.
It gave me a totally differentreport, like the three things
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were absolutely right on.
They confirmed exactly what Iexpected it to spit out.
So where it went was based onthe prompt that I gave you with
me.
So, as you're enhancing yourreports and presentations on the
prompt that I gave you with me,so as you're enhancing your
reports and presentations, giveme an example of somebody in
this specific industry who dealtwith this challenge that I can
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tell a story about during mymeeting with my team on this
topic next Tuesday.
It gives you then say then youtype in you say give me three
more options.
You like option number two.
So then you say option numbertwo, I really liked that story.
Can you give me three moreoptions?
You like option number two?
So then you say option numbertwo, I really like that story.
Can you give me moredescription and background on it
?
This is where ai makes crap upagain too.
Holy cow, does it make stuff up?
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It will just start.
It will go oh, mike at umgeneral motors he did this and
whatever else, and it will makecrap up.
It's crazy how it does this.
So, as it gives you the story,you say is that factual?
No, actually I threw in those.
Okay, only stick to relevant,actual, factual, documented
stuff.
It gives you the report orgives you the data on mike.
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Now, um, put that in a.
Uh, give me some bullet pointsthat that I can use to tell that
story in 60 seconds or less.
Boom spits it out.
Give me another set of optionsthat are a little bit more
emotive or that make the pointbetter.
You get the point.
So you're just giving itprompts, right, and it's, it's,
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it's, it's responding to yourspecific needs.
It's responding to yourspecific needs.
Or give me three reallyinteresting statistics that I
can share.
When I am doing this in thismeeting on whatever, ok, give me
three more.
Is that the best you've got?
You know what I mean.
And then I'm using differenttools.
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I'm going over to Jim and I andasking that question because
it's it's giving me differentstuff than chat, gpt versus grok
or these different tools, um,the other one that I use, um all
the time.
Let me, actually I'm just goingto look right here on my
computer.
So the ones that I've gotbookmarked claude, insanely good
at writing.
If I'm doing any kind ofwriting, I'm using claude and,
by the way, you all, I got paidmemberships for each one of
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these.
Yep, it's called investing inyour ability to lead, investing
in tools.
How much is it worth for you topay to have um outlook on your
computer?
Is it worth it for you to payto have um?
You know, just think of somepiece of software like I would
pay literally a thousand dollarsa month for each one of these
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from a professional corporateuse.
And if your company's notpaying for it, why in the world
are you not spending moneyinvesting it to enhance your
ability?
So the ones that I have areClaude, which I use for writing
it is unbelievable in writing,okay, but it sucks in my view.
On research in writing okay,but it sucks in my view.
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On research.
Grok I use, which is that's uh,elon musk's and xais um.
Don't don't let if you hateelon musk, don't let that cloud
your judgment here because he'sbuilt the uh we actually talk
about it in our upcoming bookdeliver um.
He's built the fastest, mostpowerful ai computer in the
world.
So grok is the one that I usetypically for more real time
because it's it can tell yousomething that was posted five
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seconds ago.
It's utilizing that where theothers are a little bit less,
although they're getting betterat at information.
Jim and I, you all, at the timeI'm recording this is like
leapfrogging a lot of them.
I'm going to Jim and I a tonmore.
I wasn't using it hardly at alla month ago, three months ago.
I'm using it a ton more nowbecause it's way more accurate
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and the tools that they'rebuilding from image stuff like
they're finally getting reallygood at image, which is a whole
nother topic.
It's it's amazing at research.
So, for instance, we uploadedI'll give you an example of this
real quick we uploaded themanuscript, the draft manuscript
, to our book and then I askedit to create a 30 minute podcast
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episode, a discussion betweentwo voices, uh, discussing the
highlights of the book.
It literally put out a man anda woman AI fake talking to each
other doing a book review of ourmanuscript for 30 minutes.
I listened to that at the gymthe other day and it because I
wanted to know okay, what did AIlook at?
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What did it pick out of 70,000words in our book?
How would it what?
What did it think were the mainpoints?
How did it discuss it?
That was unbelievably valuable.
Then Jim and I also.
Then I said give me a 10 minuteoverview video, video of the
manuscript I just sent you guys,you all this is a 300 page book
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document that I uploaded.
It gave me a 10 minute video.
Like you know, it looked like aPowerPoint deck kind of um, but
it was actually pretty darngood and and there were aspects
of the video that I didn't like.
But I wanted to see how wouldit summarize what we'd put in.
So then I then I gave itanother prompt and I said okay,
now do the same, do a similar 10minute video, but I want you to
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make it for this audience.
It totally changed the videoand gave me a new one.
These tools, you all, areinsane, absolutely valuable.
So I use Gemini for a lot ofthat.
It's so good.
And then chat GPT, which is atthe time I'm recording, there's
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lots of controversy around itsnewest models, which is GPT five
.
Um, I, I, I it's stillincredibly fast and I it's.
It was my go-to and I love thevoice mode on chat GPT.
So the app on my phone.
I've done episodes about thisin the past, where I'm driving
somewhere and you hit the littlevoice icon and you have a
conversation.
I mean, I'm literally havingthis in a conversation on the
way to Lowe's, like, hey, I needto get this.
Can you um make sure that theLowe's near me um has, you know,
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at such and such location thathas this in stock?
Yep, it has that rust Um, orI'm using it.
I'm driving somewhere and Iwant to know something about
this protein that I'm using onmy way to the gym.
I'm asking for this.
Or what are three routines thatI'd be using on this?
Or I'm on my way to a clientmeeting and I'm having a
conversation with it and I lovethat on chat, gpt, okay.
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So number three I got a littlecarried away on that one.
Number three enhance yourreports and presentations, and I
give you a lot more than that.
Number four analyze your work.
I just kind of dipped into thata little bit and going over the
different apps.
So if you've got a PowerPointdeck, you've got a research
paper, a PDF document, a salespresentation, a sales proposal,
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you've got anything.
If you're presenting anything,sending it, emailing it, sharing
it before you put it through anAI tool, what are you thinking
Now?
Again, sometimes these toolshallucinate or sometimes one
tool sucks more than another,but I'm uploading these things
all the time as we were writingour book, every time we finished
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a chapter, I uploaded it tothree different AI tools and
some other and I'm having itanalyze it, grade this, give it
a letter, grade a to f.
Why did you pick that grade?
Be brutally honest, like you'vegot to coach the ai tool a
little bit, because they'reprogrammed to tell you what you
want to hear, which sucks.
It's kind of like an employeeuntil you built trust, they
don't really whatever.
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Until you tell them no, no,tell me what you really think.
Then they'll start spewing that.
Or compare this we, we I'musing the book as an example
because it's super relevant forme We've, we've, uploaded
manuscripts of other books orthe printed copies or the
electronic version of otherbooks to compare our upcoming
manuscript to that book.
Why did you grade them?
Which one's better in this area?
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Whatever, what do we need tostrengthen this Unbelievable?
In analyzing your work, howwould you say this stronger?
How can I say that more concise?
As you analyze this 20 slidedeck, what are the main
takeaways?
What constructive feedbackwould you have for me?
What's missing?
What additional data?
Do you think that like, oh mygosh, the amount of time it
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saves you on research.
So you upload the thing andthen you say what's what's?
I want to add an additionalslide at slide number nine after
slide number nine in my deck,and I wanted to lean into some
relevant research from thisindustry or these sorts of
publications.
Can you give me the informationyou think I'd put on slide
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number nine?
Boom, comes right back and thenagain you verify it.
Make sure it's factual.
Do it with a couple of other aitools.
If you're not using it for this, you all you are going to get
left behind.
Number five provide strategicperspective I'll have.
So this is where you go intodeep research, right?
You know what that means.
If you don't, you need to gogoogle it or actually chat, tpt
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it or type it into what's deepresearch.
Use these tools.
They've made it way easier inthe last few months to do it to
where you don't have to choosethe different LLM they call it.
You know large language model.
And so you just say give me anin-depth report building a
five-year or three-yearstrategic plan in this
particular industry.
Look at competitive challenges,utilize recent earnings reports
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and whatever else.
Build me a marketing plan fortwo years in this industry,
whatever.
And you use deep research, notjust a quick response.
You want the AI engine to takelike five to ten minutes at
minimum to do this.
If it's not taking five to tenminutes to give you this report
back, you haven't given in theright prompt.
You want it digging.
I gave something to jim and Ithe other day.
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It took 25 minutes, 20.
I got up, did some other things, worked around on some other
things, came back and gave me a30 page report on.
But now, of those 30 pages, howmuch was valuable?
Probably three or four.
You know that I were exactlywhat I was looking for.
If you're not using it forstrategic guidance in any area,
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for deep research, for data oncompetitors on the market, on
what's changing, what, thenyou're going to get left behind.
Okay, I got a couple of minutesbefore we hit 30 minutes, so I
gotta, I gotta, wrap up.
I'm going to give you a bonusone here.
Number six, number six I toldyou I was giving you five.
I'm giving you, I'm overdelivering.
Number six coaching andguidance.
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Oh my gosh, is this valuable?
Are you using it for this?
Hey, I've got an employee, I'vegot an apartment, I've got an
upcoming meeting.
Hey, I've got an employee, I'vegot an apartment, I've got an
upcoming meeting where I'mplanning to do this and I'm, I'm
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, I'm using you all this.
I'm using AI as a.
I'm using it as a personalassistant.
I'm using it as a psychologist,a psychiatrist, trainer.
I'm using it as a um, aexecutive coach.
I'm using it as a strategicadvisor.
I'm using it as a creative mind.
I'm using it in all these roles.
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I'm just having a conversationwith it from time to time.
I'm dealing with thisparticular situation and this is
what I'm dealing with and thisis is what I'm.
I'm looking for some guidanceon this.
This is what I'm planning to doin Friday's meeting and
whatever, whatever, or I'mworking out on this, like I'll
get.
I'll give you another personalexample of this.
So recently I was dealing withsome energy drain, like I and
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I've got a routine to where thisisn't normally an issue, and
then, so as I get older andwhatever else, I'm thinking,
well, is this having to do withmy diet?
Is this having to do with myphysical routine?
Is this something dealing withage?
But like, like six or seveno'clock at night, I like had no
energy.
I'm like like just fading.
This is months ago and it'shappening like not just a day or
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two, but like routinely, andI'm'm you know I'm active and
doing all these sorts of things.
So I typed it into one of the aiai tools and I told it what I
was doing, whatever else, whatit provided back in the form of
like supplements and whateverelse.
Hey, russ, are you taking thisand this and do you have this in
your diet.
I'm like, no wait, what aboutthat?
What is that is?
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Oh, that's available on Amazonor you could get that, whatever.
Ok, well, I'm going to goresearch this and research that.
And then it told me specificthings I should be doing with my
workout, my routine, certainsupplements that I should be
considering, like, if you're notusing it in all kinds of areas
to coach you, advise, youprovide, then you're going to be
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left behind.
So those are the six things.
Let me run through them realquickly.
Number one organizing andarchiving meetings started
immediately.
Number two you might have tomess with the details a little
bit on that and the differenttools or whatever.
You've heard what I recommend.
Number two prepare for meetings.
Number three enhance yourreports and presentations.
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Number four analyze your work.
Number five provide strategicperspective, deep research.
Number six coach, advise youUsing AI, you all.
It's going to be funny to goback and listen to this episode
in like a year or two or threeand go wait, that's all we were
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doing.
Year or two or three and gowait, that's all we were doing,
because it's going to be so muchmore integrated in our the way
we lead.
Those of you that aren'tdigging into this, I promise you
you're going to be left behind.
That's what's on my mind inthis episode of the Lead in 30
podcast.
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that you lead others.
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Okay, let's get into AI.
And I know like when I hearthose two letters right now,
quite honestly I almost roll myeyes a little bit, because
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there's just discussioneverywhere around AI and yet
we're all at different levels.
We're all at different placeswhen it comes to how we're
utilizing it in leading teams.
So this is not a podcast aboutthe latest and greatest app
Gemini versus Grok, versus chat,gpt, chat, gpt five versus this
(02:02):
version, or whatever it mightbe at the time that you listen
to this episode.
That's not what this this isabout.
What this is about is utilizingthe technology advances that
are happening very quickly inorder to strengthen your ability
to lead others.
Are you actually using thoseapps and others in your daily
routine?
Because if you're not, you'regetting left behind.
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It's, it's happening, and so ifyou're dipping your toe in it a
little bit, that's not going towork.
These tools are revolutionaryand they're transformative in
their ability to help us be moreeffective in leading others,
and so I'm going to give youjust five basic things that I
want you to look at and listento this checklist and say, okay,
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yep, I'm doing that.
Nope, I'm not doing that, neverknew about that, never thought
about it.
Some of these, some of you aredoing others, you're not doing
any of this stuff, so let's just, let's get into it.
Okay, number one oh, and, bythe way, before I even get into
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the list, well, and I'll talkabout this as we go through the
episode, I don't care what toolyou're using.
I'm going to advocate differenttools based on different needs
or their strengths, but this isvery fluid.
So at the time that thispodcast episode is being pushed
out to the market, that well, bythe time you listen to this,
these things might've changedjust a little bit.
Specific apps because these appsare jumping and leapfrogging
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each other from week to week ormonth to month.
All right, so, number oneorganize and archive meetings.
Are you doing that?
Like, let me give you anexample of how this works and
and this I've totally changedhow I show up at virtual and
in-person meetings now.
So in a virtual meeting, do youhave a note taker and and there
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are all kinds, there are allkinds of annoying one annoying
note takers out there that areputting things into the chat and
that you can, whatever.
No, you turn off all of thosefunctionalities because it's
distracting to the meeting.
And these AI tools, they allwant to insert themselves and
have pop-ups and do all thisstuff in the chat and whatever.
You don't want any of that.
It's so distracting to others.
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So you turn off all of thoseoptions in in the uh, in the
preferences or the settings.
All you want the AI tool to dois you want it to sync with your
calendar and any virtualmeeting invite that you have, it
automatically shows up.
So every internal meeting thatI have with different employees
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or members of the leadershipteam in our firm, when I log in,
my note taker is there.
I happen to use otterio, t, t,e, rio.
It is absolutely the best.
Now, again, this changes and itgoes back and forth, but we have
an account for everybody on ourteam.
Otterio, its ability to juststay in the back Now it's
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constantly trying, trying tohave a bigger presence, and so
I've got to adjust the settingsconstantly to say, okay, nope, I
don't want you putting anythingin the chat, nope, I don't want
you doing, you know, sending anemail to everyone after the
meeting.
I don't want any of that.
That's annoying.
So I turn off all thosesettings.
All I have it simply do is syncwith my outlook calendar and
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then it doesn't matter if it'steams, webex, um, zoom, any of
that.
It pops up and it just sitsthere by itself and it doesn't.
Nobody even notices that it'sthere.
It just shows up as aparticipant says Russ's note
taker, or something like that.
That's all it does, becauseI've turned everything off and
it's recording the whole meeting.
It captures a screenshot of anyslide that is shown about every
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two to five to 10 minutes, Idon't know how frequent it takes
a screenshot of theparticipants, whoever's sharing.
You know their camera so I canremember who was in the meeting,
what they look like, whatslides were shared.
It automatically captures ascreenshot.
Every time you advance a slide,it captures it.
Every time you advance a slide,it captures it.
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So I have that in a folder onthe internet in our file
structure.
Every internal meeting andevery meeting with the client,
every meeting with the vendor,every meeting with anybody.
I've got an archive of all ofit.
And, by the way, I can use anAI assistant inside of Otter.
You can use whatever tool youwant to.
I don't care, I just want youdoing this.
I can use an AI assistant to goand say, hey, tell me about my
last meeting with thisparticular client, what was the
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date that we said the upcomingmeeting was going to be at?
Five seconds later, it gives methe response hey, in my last
meetings with this department,we talked about whatever.
Can you remind me of what theaction items were?
Boom, it spits it out.
It's insanely efficient.
So now that's where I startedwas having that present.
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All my virtual meetings.
Now I use the phone app andrecord every meeting I'm in.
There are occasions when Iforget, I get distracted.
I don't do it.
But like, for instance, we hadan offsite with our leadership
team just a few days ago andI've got my phone out there in
the middle of the room and I'mrecording.
And most of these apps havelike a three or four hour limit,
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so I'm recording.
By the way, I'm not on my phonein the meeting.
That's a bad peeve, right.
So it's sitting there and it'srecording the meeting.
That's a pet peeve, right.
So it's sitting there and it'srecording and it it has now
voice recognition software towhere it now knows over a series
of meetings.
It doesn't do this instantly,but because it's heard these
voices in virtual meetings indifferent places, it knows that
paul is saying that, it knowsthat brent is saying that.
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It knows that whomever like it,it automatically tells me who
said what.
That's crazy that thattechnology exists.
So I've got the whole offsite.
And, by the way, you can havesomebody else do this, an
assistant, um, you could havesomebody on the communications
team.
If you're a big, if you're abig organization, um, you can do
it whatever you want to do it,and and so we at our firm we
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typically have two or threepeople that are recording every
meeting we go to a clientmeeting with.
This happened a few weeks ago.
We were at a uh, well, aprospective client, uh, an
organization flew out, um, agroup from our firm.
They wanted us to meet withthem for a couple of hours and
one of the members of our teamwe'd plan this in advance just
put their phone there and juststrategically was re, was
recording that, just as notes,you know, and we would never
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share that publicly, obviously,and they're all kind of laws
about that, making sure thatpeople know that meetings are
recorded.
If you're ever going to sharethat stuff publicly, we're
obviously not going to do that.
This is all behind the scenesjust taking notes, um, just like
having the assistant in theroom that's typing up, except
this is way more efficient andit automatically summarizes it
and it's cheaper.
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So are you organizing andarchiving your meetings in
person and virtually?
Why aren't you doing that?
I go to meetings all the time.
Nobody's got a note taker.
Nobody's doing it.
Are you crazy?
You can you, why?
Oh my gosh.
So let's get that.
That's number one.
You've got to be doing that.
I don't care what app you use,but you need to be doing that.
Number two prepare for meetings.
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This is insanely valuable.
So now that you've got thatarchive of all the meetings, you
can go and you can say, ok,because I'm getting ready now
for the next offsite.
Hey, give me AI.
And you're using whatever notetaker AI tool.
You go in and it's got all thedata.
And, by the way, every I'm notjust doing that with our meeting
, we're doing it with differentpeople at our firm.
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They're recording theirmeetings with prospective
clients, with new members of theteam, whatever, so it's all
there in the library and so youcan say hey, for our upcoming
marketing offsite.
Will you review the discussionfrom the last one and then the
calls that I've had in the lastcouple of weeks with X, you know
, with the head of marketing andthis person, whatever.
You put their names in and giveme a suggested agenda of what
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we ought to be talking about, orthat would be good for me to
follow up.
Oh my gosh, is this valuable?
So that's one way that you'reusing it to prepare for meetings
.
Another way some of you aredoing this right, you have a
meeting with a prospectiveclient or a client and you want
to walk into the meetinginformed, and so you're using
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chat, gpt or gemini or whateverthe tool is.
This is outside of your meeting.
Your, your um, meeting notetaker, ai tool.
You're um, you're doingresearch.
Tell me about this executive.
Tell me about this company.
Tell me about what's been whatwhat's been in the news, uh,
with this company for the lastfew weeks.
Tell me about this executive.
Tell me about this company.
Tell me about what's beenwhat's been in the news with
this company for the last fewweeks.
Tell me about how they'restacking up against competitors,
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whatever.
Now, an important disclaimer AIis wrong.
It gets the wrong data.
It has what they callhallucinations that's a
technical term for it sosometimes it's just like a human
being or somebody.
Right, it's going to sometimesgive you the wrong data.
So don't go get ready for thatmeeting and type it into an AI
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tool in the back of an Uber,headed over to it or whatever,
and you don't verify it.
I might put the exact samequestion into another AI tool.
I put it in Gemini, which isGoogle's AI tool, and I also put
it in, uh, in chat, gpt.
Um, if it's really importantthat I've got the information,
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or I do it two days in a row,because these things hallucinate
or they give you bad data.
Oh, and a key thing to do thatthat I've learned a trick is all
.
After it gives me back the dataI've asked for, I'll type back
in.
Will you double check and makesure that everything that you
just provided me with isaccurate and up to date?
And a lot of times you'll go,oh, thanks for asking, actually,
this.
I'm like, oh my gosh, you gaveme, like, the revenue numbers
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from three years ago, or yougave me this that's bogus, or it
will make crap up.
That's the danger of it, right?
That's why some people arescared.
They go, oh my gosh, I don'twant to use AI.
Well, okay, yes, it has, it hasits weaknesses, but that is the
outlier.
And as long as you're usingsafeguards for it, then you're
good.
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So why would you avoid the AIaltogether?
Like, that's insane.
It's like someone saying Idon't think I remember when I,
when, when the first iPhone cameout and they had iTunes on it
right Cause that's how welistened to music back in that
day, right After Napster andwhatever else then iTunes was it
, and you bought songs.
And I remember the first iPhonecame out and they had iTunes in
it and a little earphone jackand I thought this is absolutely
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stupid.
Like I cannot even believe thatSteve jobs at the time, right,
stupid.
Like I cannot even believe thatSteve jobs at the time, right,
I cannot believe that Steve jobsand Apple believe that people
are going to listen to music ontheir phone.
That is so stupid and I refuseto do it.
Um, yeah, I think I was.
I think I was wrong.
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And if you're a hold out on AI,you're wrong.
Get ready to be left behind.
So prepare for meetings.
Lots more that I could be saidabout that.
That could be said about that.
Um, you can use it for internalmeetings.
You can use it for externalmeetings.
Any of that, okay, and andthese next bullet points that I
go through these next few itemson our list of five things that
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how ai can help upgrade you as aleader.
You'll see that there's overlap.
And so number three.
So, number one organize andarchive meetings, past meetings.
Number two prepare for upcomingmeetings.
Number three enhance yourreports and presentations.
You're using it for this right,so you've got a meeting where
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you're doing an hour longwhatever, and there's all kinds
of ways you can use it toenhance.
Hey, give me a story that makesthis point.
Hey, I need some data that'sfrom these types of sources.
And the better the prompt right, you're figuring this out as
you use AI, right, the bettermore specific the prompt, the
better the information it is itgives back to you.
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So if I say, give me some datato help me in this meeting, the
data is going to be okay.
If I say, give me reports thathave quantitative information
from the last 12 months in thisspecific industry, from
reputable reports, so I'll giveyou an example, example of this,
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actually they'll help you.
So I was, uh, I was looking for,I was typing into an AI tool
the other day Um, what some ofthe most talked about topics are
in leadership and leadershipspaces right now.
I got checked this all the time, like making sure that we're
not getting left behind onsomething.
So I'm in one of the, the, the,the popular AI tools, and I'm
like, hey, give me three of themost talked about topics in
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leadership development right now, and it spit out three topics
that I was like really Like thatdoes seem outdated and it was
quoting McKinsey and quotingKorn Ferry and some of these big
, big firms that are a littlebit slow to move in when it
comes to current trends.
Right, they're not as nimbleand scrappy as smaller firms
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like ours, but they're huge.
Like these are the beast of theindustry, right, and we don't
compete directly with themthey're in a different space,
but but in the work that they dothey're huge.
So it's quoting McKinsey andKorn Ferry and Boston and all
these different consultinggroups and you know Harvard
Business Review and whatever,and I'm thinking I think these
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are outdated.
So I said, no, don't look atthe institutional research or
major strategic consulting firmsas your source.
Go to like X or Twitter, go tomessage boards, go to business
publications, more like WallStreet Journal and different
things.
It gave me a totally differentreport, like the three things
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were absolutely right on.
They confirmed exactly what Iexpected it to spit out.
So where it went was based onthe prompt that I gave you with
me.
So, as you're enhancing yourreports and presentations on the
prompt that I gave you with me,so as you're enhancing your
reports and presentations, giveme an example of somebody in
this specific industry who dealtwith this challenge that I can
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tell a story about during mymeeting with my team on this
topic next Tuesday.
It gives you then say then youtype in you say give me three
more options.
You like option number two.
So then you say option numbertwo, I really liked that story.
Can you give me three moreoptions?
You like option number two?
So then you say option numbertwo, I really like that story.
Can you give me moredescription and background on it
?
This is where ai makes crap upagain too.
Holy cow, does it make stuff up?
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It will just start.
It will go oh, mike at umgeneral motors he did this and
whatever else, and it will makecrap up.
It's crazy how it does this.
So, as it gives you the story,you say is that factual?
No, actually I threw in those.
Okay, only stick to relevant,actual, factual, documented
stuff.
It gives you the report orgives you the data on mike.
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Now, um, put that in a.
Uh, give me some bullet pointsthat that I can use to tell that
story in 60 seconds or less.
Boom spits it out.
Give me another set of optionsthat are a little bit more
emotive or that make the pointbetter.
You get the point.
So you're just giving itprompts, right, and it's, it's,
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it's, it's responding to yourspecific needs.
It's responding to yourspecific needs.
Or give me three reallyinteresting statistics that I
can share.
When I am doing this in thismeeting on whatever, ok, give me
three more.
Is that the best you've got?
You know what I mean.
And then I'm using differenttools.
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I'm going over to Jim and I andasking that question because
it's it's giving me differentstuff than chat, gpt versus grok
or these different tools, um,the other one that I use, um all
the time.
Let me, actually I'm just goingto look right here on my
computer.
So the ones that I've gotbookmarked claude, insanely good
at writing.
If I'm doing any kind ofwriting, I'm using claude and,
by the way, you all, I got paidmemberships for each one of
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these.
Yep, it's called investing inyour ability to lead, investing
in tools.
How much is it worth for you topay to have um outlook on your
computer?
Is it worth it for you to payto have um?
You know, just think of somepiece of software like I would
pay literally a thousand dollarsa month for each one of these
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from a professional corporateuse.
And if your company's notpaying for it, why in the world
are you not spending moneyinvesting it to enhance your
ability?
So the ones that I have areClaude, which I use for writing
it is unbelievable in writing,okay, but it sucks in my view.
On research in writing okay,but it sucks in my view.
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On research.
Grok I use, which is that's uh,elon musk's and xais um.
Don't don't let if you hateelon musk, don't let that cloud
your judgment here because he'sbuilt the uh we actually talk
about it in our upcoming bookdeliver um.
He's built the fastest, mostpowerful ai computer in the
world.
So grok is the one that I usetypically for more real time
because it's it can tell yousomething that was posted five
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seconds ago.
It's utilizing that where theothers are a little bit less,
although they're getting betterat at information.
Jim and I, you all, at the timeI'm recording this is like
leapfrogging a lot of them.
I'm going to Jim and I a tonmore.
I wasn't using it hardly at alla month ago, three months ago.
I'm using it a ton more nowbecause it's way more accurate
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and the tools that they'rebuilding from image stuff like
they're finally getting reallygood at image, which is a whole
nother topic.
It's it's amazing at research.
So, for instance, we uploadedI'll give you an example of this
real quick we uploaded themanuscript, the draft manuscript
, to our book and then I askedit to create a 30 minute podcast
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episode, a discussion betweentwo voices, uh, discussing the
highlights of the book.
It literally put out a man anda woman AI fake talking to each
other doing a book review of ourmanuscript for 30 minutes.
I listened to that at the gymthe other day and it because I
wanted to know okay, what did AIlook at?
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What did it pick out of 70,000words in our book?
How would it what?
What did it think were the mainpoints?
How did it discuss it?
That was unbelievably valuable.
Then Jim and I also.
Then I said give me a 10 minuteoverview video, video of the
manuscript I just sent you guys,you all this is a 300 page book
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document that I uploaded.
It gave me a 10 minute video.
Like you know, it looked like aPowerPoint deck kind of um, but
it was actually pretty darngood and and there were aspects
of the video that I didn't like.
But I wanted to see how wouldit summarize what we'd put in.
So then I then I gave itanother prompt and I said okay,
now do the same, do a similar 10minute video, but I want you to
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make it for this audience.
It totally changed the videoand gave me a new one.
These tools, you all, areinsane, absolutely valuable.
So I use Gemini for a lot ofthat.
It's so good.
And then chat GPT, which is atthe time I'm recording, there's
(21:05):
lots of controversy around itsnewest models, which is GPT five
.
Um, I, I, I it's stillincredibly fast and I it's.
It was my go-to and I love thevoice mode on chat GPT.
So the app on my phone.
I've done episodes about thisin the past, where I'm driving
somewhere and you hit the littlevoice icon and you have a
conversation.
I mean, I'm literally havingthis in a conversation on the
way to Lowe's, like, hey, I needto get this.
Can you um make sure that theLowe's near me um has, you know,
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at such and such location thathas this in stock?
Yep, it has that rust Um, orI'm using it.
I'm driving somewhere and Iwant to know something about
this protein that I'm using onmy way to the gym.
I'm asking for this.
Or what are three routines thatI'd be using on this?
Or I'm on my way to a clientmeeting and I'm having a
conversation with it and I lovethat on chat, gpt, okay.
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So number three I got a littlecarried away on that one.
Number three enhance yourreports and presentations, and I
give you a lot more than that.
Number four analyze your work.
I just kind of dipped into thata little bit and going over the
different apps.
So if you've got a PowerPointdeck, you've got a research
paper, a PDF document, a salespresentation, a sales proposal,
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you've got anything.
If you're presenting anything,sending it, emailing it, sharing
it before you put it through anAI tool, what are you thinking
Now?
Again, sometimes these toolshallucinate or sometimes one
tool sucks more than another,but I'm uploading these things
all the time as we were writingour book, every time we finished
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a chapter, I uploaded it tothree different AI tools and
some other and I'm having itanalyze it, grade this, give it
a letter, grade a to f.
Why did you pick that grade?
Be brutally honest, like you'vegot to coach the ai tool a
little bit, because they'reprogrammed to tell you what you
want to hear, which sucks.
It's kind of like an employeeuntil you built trust, they
don't really whatever.
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Until you tell them no, no,tell me what you really think.
Then they'll start spewing that.
Or compare this we, we I'musing the book as an example
because it's super relevant forme We've, we've, uploaded
manuscripts of other books orthe printed copies or the
electronic version of otherbooks to compare our upcoming
manuscript to that book.
Why did you grade them?
Which one's better in this area?
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Whatever, what do we need tostrengthen this Unbelievable?
In analyzing your work, howwould you say this stronger?
How can I say that more concise?
As you analyze this 20 slidedeck, what are the main
takeaways?
What constructive feedbackwould you have for me?
What's missing?
What additional data?
Do you think that like, oh mygosh, the amount of time it
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saves you on research.
So you upload the thing andthen you say what's what's?
I want to add an additionalslide at slide number nine after
slide number nine in my deck,and I wanted to lean into some
relevant research from thisindustry or these sorts of
publications.
Can you give me the informationyou think I'd put on slide
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number nine?
Boom, comes right back and thenagain you verify it.
Make sure it's factual.
Do it with a couple of other aitools.
If you're not using it for this, you all you are going to get
left behind.
Number five provide strategicperspective I'll have.
So this is where you go intodeep research, right?
You know what that means.
If you don't, you need to gogoogle it or actually chat, tpt
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it or type it into what's deepresearch.
Use these tools.
They've made it way easier inthe last few months to do it to
where you don't have to choosethe different LLM they call it.
You know large language model.
And so you just say give me anin-depth report building a
five-year or three-yearstrategic plan in this
particular industry.
Look at competitive challenges,utilize recent earnings reports
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and whatever else.
Build me a marketing plan fortwo years in this industry,
whatever.
And you use deep research, notjust a quick response.
You want the AI engine to takelike five to ten minutes at
minimum to do this.
If it's not taking five to tenminutes to give you this report
back, you haven't given in theright prompt.
You want it digging.
I gave something to jim and Ithe other day.
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It took 25 minutes, 20.
I got up, did some other things, worked around on some other
things, came back and gave me a30 page report on.
But now, of those 30 pages, howmuch was valuable?
Probably three or four.
You know that I were exactlywhat I was looking for.
If you're not using it forstrategic guidance in any area,
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for deep research, for data oncompetitors on the market, on
what's changing, what, thenyou're going to get left behind.
Okay, I got a couple of minutesbefore we hit 30 minutes, so I
gotta, I gotta, wrap up.
I'm going to give you a bonusone here.
Number six, number six I toldyou I was giving you five.
I'm giving you, I'm overdelivering.
Number six coaching andguidance.
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Oh my gosh, is this valuable?
Are you using it for this?
Hey, I've got an employee, I'vegot an apartment, I've got an
upcoming meeting.
Hey, I've got an employee, I'vegot an apartment, I've got an
upcoming meeting where I'mplanning to do this and I'm, I'm
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, I'm using you all this.
I'm using AI as a.
I'm using it as a personalassistant.
I'm using it as a psychologist,a psychiatrist, trainer.
I'm using it as a um, aexecutive coach.
I'm using it as a strategicadvisor.
I'm using it as a creative mind.
I'm using it in all these roles.
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I'm just having a conversationwith it from time to time.
I'm dealing with thisparticular situation and this is
what I'm dealing with and thisis is what I'm.
I'm looking for some guidanceon this.
This is what I'm planning to doin Friday's meeting and
whatever, whatever, or I'mworking out on this, like I'll
get.
I'll give you another personalexample of this.
So recently I was dealing withsome energy drain, like I and
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I've got a routine to where thisisn't normally an issue, and
then, so as I get older andwhatever else, I'm thinking,
well, is this having to do withmy diet?
Is this having to do with myphysical routine?
Is this something dealing withage?
But like, like six or seveno'clock at night, I like had no
energy.
I'm like like just fading.
This is months ago and it'shappening like not just a day or
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two, but like routinely, andI'm'm you know I'm active and
doing all these sorts of things.
So I typed it into one of the aiai tools and I told it what I
was doing, whatever else, whatit provided back in the form of
like supplements and whateverelse.
Hey, russ, are you taking thisand this and do you have this in
your diet.
I'm like, no wait, what aboutthat?
What is that is?
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Oh, that's available on Amazonor you could get that, whatever.
Ok, well, I'm going to goresearch this and research that.
And then it told me specificthings I should be doing with my
workout, my routine, certainsupplements that I should be
considering, like, if you're notusing it in all kinds of areas
to coach you, advise, youprovide, then you're going to be
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left behind.
So those are the six things.
Let me run through them realquickly.
Number one organizing andarchiving meetings started
immediately.
Number two you might have tomess with the details a little
bit on that and the differenttools or whatever.
You've heard what I recommend.
Number two prepare for meetings.
Number three enhance yourreports and presentations.
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Number four analyze your work.
Number five provide strategicperspective, deep research.
Number six coach, advise youUsing AI, you all.
It's going to be funny to goback and listen to this episode
in like a year or two or threeand go wait, that's all we were
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doing.
Year or two or three and gowait, that's all we were doing,
because it's going to be so muchmore integrated in our the way
we lead.
Those of you that aren'tdigging into this, I promise you
you're going to be left behind.
That's what's on my mind inthis episode of the Lead in 30
podcast.
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