December 2, 2025 • 8 mins
This episode explores why future leaders will excel by blending human intuition with AI driven insight and explains how to practice that hybrid leadership style today. It gives a clear action framework that turns AI into a strategic advantage for every leader.
Host: Paul Falavolito
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Books by Paul Falavolito
Host: Paul Falavolito
Connect with me on your favorite platform: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Substack, BlueSky, Threads, LinkTree, YouTube
View my website for free leadership resources and exclusive merchandise: www.paulfalavolito.com
Books by Paul Falavolito
- The 7 Minute Leadership Handbook: bit.ly/48J8zFG
- The Leadership Academy: https://bit.ly/4lnT1Pf
- The 7 Minute Leadership Survival Guide: https://bit.ly/4ij0g8y
- The Leader's Book of Secrets: http://bit.ly/4oeGzCI
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Helping leaders motivate their people to a higher level of
performance through strong human relations, team building, and goal achieving.
This is the seven minute Leadership Podcast with your host
Paul Fellavaliedo.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hello everyone, and welcome to this seven minute leadership podcast.
It's episode five forty one. Today we're stepping into the
future without waiting for the calendar to catch up. I
want you to picture something that is not science fiction.
It's not hypothetical, and it's not far away. It's the
(00:44):
real world that leaders will live in by twenty forty five.
In that world, leadership and artificial intelligence have merged into
a single operating system. Human intuition sits in the pilot
seat and machine precision sits in the copilot seat. The
(01:05):
leaders who win in that world are not the ones
with the loudest voice in the room. They're the ones
who know how to ask questions the machine can elevate.
So this episode is about preparing for that world while
it's still optional, so you're not left behind when it
(01:27):
becomes mandatory. Here's the mindset shift in twenty forty five.
The best leaders are orchestrators of intelligence. They're not defined
by answers. They're defined by the way they frame problems,
the way they challenge assumptions, and the way they combine
(01:48):
human experience with synthetic insight. They do not guess when
they can model, They do not assume when they can simulate.
They do not go on insightinked alone when they can
run one thousand scenarios in the time it takes to
sip their morning coffee. So let me give you a
(02:09):
picture of what this looks like. Imagine a leader in
twenty forty five walking into a strategy room. They sit down,
open a system that feels like in AI command console,
and they type the questions that actually matter. What is
the scenario I'm not seeing? What are the second and
(02:32):
third order effects? Where is the risk that has not
surfaced yet? Then the machine does what the human brain
cannot do fast enough. It runs the math, It builds
the branches, It spots the blind spots. It warns them
of the slippery slope hidden behind the easy decision. The
(02:57):
human leader takes all that and does what humans do best,
applies judgment, empathy, and experience. And when that blend happens,
leadership becomes something new, something sharper, something faster, something safer,
(03:17):
something more accurate. The part most people miss is this.
You do not wait for that future. You can practice
the twenty forty five leadership model right now. You already
have access to intelligence that used to be science fiction.
(03:38):
You can co lead with it starting today. I want
you to think about this. When you bring AI into
your leadership process, you change the tempo of your entire organization.
You get answers before your competition even knows what question
to ask. You see patterns your team cannot spot. You
(04:02):
run simulations that reveal hidden outcomes. You get a preview
of moves before you even make them. And the truth is,
leaders who do this will outpace everyone else. Leaders who
refuse will fall far behind without even noticing it is happening.
(04:25):
And let me give you the real story of where
this lands. I see leaders every day who are drowning
in decisions. They run from meeting to meeting, They put
out fires, They try to operate on instinct alone. They
fall into the trap of reacting instead of thinking. They
(04:48):
repeat yesterday's logic without realizing the environment has shifted under
their feet. AI changes that. It snaps you out of
that pattern. It forces you to elevate your thinking. It
challenges the angle you came in with. It gives you
(05:09):
the superpower of asking a sharper question. It gives you
the visibility of ten leaders stacked together. And here is
how you bring this into your leadership routine today. Start
co leading with AI. Bring it into the start of
your meetings. Ask it to pressure test your plan. Ask
(05:33):
it to simulate the outcome that you're worried about. Ask
it to reveal the thing your brain keeps skipping over.
Let it challenge your thinking before someone else does. It's
not replacing you, it's refining you. And let me give
you the action move that will change your leadership forever.
(05:56):
Before any major decision, ask three simple questions. What is
the second order effect, what is the third order effect?
And what is the scenario I'm not seeing. Those questions
pull you out of instinct and into intelligence. They take
(06:18):
you from short term thinking into a long term mindset.
They reveal the ripple effects that destroy leaders who never
saw them coming. When you bring AI into that process,
it will surface answers that no human can calculate fast enough.
(06:38):
It will map the consequences, It will show you the
chain reaction. It will give you a level of clarity
that leaders twenty years ago could only dream of. The
leaders who will dominate the next two decades will not
be the smartest. They will be the ones who know
(07:00):
how to ask the questions that unlock the intelligence sitting
right in front of them. You become the orchestrator. You
set the direction, you steer the system. You keep the
human part intact. You bring the empathy, the nu once,
the character and the leadership. The machine brings the speed,
(07:23):
the pattern recognition and the calculations. Put those together and
you become something close to unstoppable. That is the future,
and you can start living it today. Start building this
muscle now. Make eye your strategy partner and your blind
(07:46):
spot checker. Make it the extra set of eyes that
scans the terrain ahead. Leaders who master this will not
be surprised by the future. They will be the ones
shaping it. And before we wrap up, I want to
let you know that my YouTube channel is now home
to leadership content from the show. I'm adding leadership short
(08:09):
videos built from the strongest moments in each episode, and
I will be uploading select full video interviews too. So
if YouTube is your platform, head over to my channel
and subscribe link is in the description of this show
and on my website. Your support there helps push this
message to more leaders who need it around the world.
(08:32):
This has been the seven minute Leadership podcast, and I
thank you for listening.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
For more Paul fell of Alito podcasts, visit paulfellowalito dot com.
Helping leaders motivate their people to a higher level of
performance through strong human relations, team building, and goal achieving.
This is the seven minute Leadership Podcast with your host
Paul Fellavaliedo.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hello everyone, and welcome to this seven minute leadership podcast.
It's episode five forty one. Today we're stepping into the
future without waiting for the calendar to catch up. I
want you to picture something that is not science fiction.
It's not hypothetical, and it's not far away. It's the
(00:44):
real world that leaders will live in by twenty forty five.
In that world, leadership and artificial intelligence have merged into
a single operating system. Human intuition sits in the pilot
seat and machine precision sits in the copilot seat. The
(01:05):
leaders who win in that world are not the ones
with the loudest voice in the room. They're the ones
who know how to ask questions the machine can elevate.
So this episode is about preparing for that world while
it's still optional, so you're not left behind when it
(01:27):
becomes mandatory. Here's the mindset shift in twenty forty five.
The best leaders are orchestrators of intelligence. They're not defined
by answers. They're defined by the way they frame problems,
the way they challenge assumptions, and the way they combine
(01:48):
human experience with synthetic insight. They do not guess when
they can model, They do not assume when they can simulate.
They do not go on insightinked alone when they can
run one thousand scenarios in the time it takes to
sip their morning coffee. So let me give you a
(02:09):
picture of what this looks like. Imagine a leader in
twenty forty five walking into a strategy room. They sit down,
open a system that feels like in AI command console,
and they type the questions that actually matter. What is
the scenario I'm not seeing? What are the second and
(02:32):
third order effects? Where is the risk that has not
surfaced yet? Then the machine does what the human brain
cannot do fast enough. It runs the math, It builds
the branches, It spots the blind spots. It warns them
of the slippery slope hidden behind the easy decision. The
(02:57):
human leader takes all that and does what humans do best,
applies judgment, empathy, and experience. And when that blend happens,
leadership becomes something new, something sharper, something faster, something safer,
(03:17):
something more accurate. The part most people miss is this.
You do not wait for that future. You can practice
the twenty forty five leadership model right now. You already
have access to intelligence that used to be science fiction.
(03:38):
You can co lead with it starting today. I want
you to think about this. When you bring AI into
your leadership process, you change the tempo of your entire organization.
You get answers before your competition even knows what question
to ask. You see patterns your team cannot spot. You
(04:02):
run simulations that reveal hidden outcomes. You get a preview
of moves before you even make them. And the truth is,
leaders who do this will outpace everyone else. Leaders who
refuse will fall far behind without even noticing it is happening.
(04:25):
And let me give you the real story of where
this lands. I see leaders every day who are drowning
in decisions. They run from meeting to meeting, They put
out fires, They try to operate on instinct alone. They
fall into the trap of reacting instead of thinking. They
(04:48):
repeat yesterday's logic without realizing the environment has shifted under
their feet. AI changes that. It snaps you out of
that pattern. It forces you to elevate your thinking. It
challenges the angle you came in with. It gives you
(05:09):
the superpower of asking a sharper question. It gives you
the visibility of ten leaders stacked together. And here is
how you bring this into your leadership routine today. Start
co leading with AI. Bring it into the start of
your meetings. Ask it to pressure test your plan. Ask
(05:33):
it to simulate the outcome that you're worried about. Ask
it to reveal the thing your brain keeps skipping over.
Let it challenge your thinking before someone else does. It's
not replacing you, it's refining you. And let me give
you the action move that will change your leadership forever.
(05:56):
Before any major decision, ask three simple questions. What is
the second order effect, what is the third order effect?
And what is the scenario I'm not seeing. Those questions
pull you out of instinct and into intelligence. They take
(06:18):
you from short term thinking into a long term mindset.
They reveal the ripple effects that destroy leaders who never
saw them coming. When you bring AI into that process,
it will surface answers that no human can calculate fast enough.
(06:38):
It will map the consequences, It will show you the
chain reaction. It will give you a level of clarity
that leaders twenty years ago could only dream of. The
leaders who will dominate the next two decades will not
be the smartest. They will be the ones who know
(07:00):
how to ask the questions that unlock the intelligence sitting
right in front of them. You become the orchestrator. You
set the direction, you steer the system. You keep the
human part intact. You bring the empathy, the nu once,
the character and the leadership. The machine brings the speed,
(07:23):
the pattern recognition and the calculations. Put those together and
you become something close to unstoppable. That is the future,
and you can start living it today. Start building this
muscle now. Make eye your strategy partner and your blind
(07:46):
spot checker. Make it the extra set of eyes that
scans the terrain ahead. Leaders who master this will not
be surprised by the future. They will be the ones
shaping it. And before we wrap up, I want to
let you know that my YouTube channel is now home
to leadership content from the show. I'm adding leadership short
(08:09):
videos built from the strongest moments in each episode, and
I will be uploading select full video interviews too. So
if YouTube is your platform, head over to my channel
and subscribe link is in the description of this show
and on my website. Your support there helps push this
message to more leaders who need it around the world.
(08:32):
This has been the seven minute Leadership podcast, and I
thank you for listening.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
For more Paul fell of Alito podcasts, visit paulfellowalito dot com.
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