My failures

I’m often asked for “reels”, the <give me a moment while I gag> “greatest hits” of my keynotes. I HATE making them.

Imagine watching endless footage of yourself on stage, trying to find good bits, and then in desperation checking out what everyone else has done showing how brilliant they are. My brain closes in on everything I do wrong. So, given it's the end of the summer silly season, we made that instead. The vlog this week is mostly me falling over chairs.

I’m dreaming of the day my AI agent will make it for me. Yet, somehow I suspect that, whatever it suggests, it will still come down to human judgement and bloody-minded determination to do the boring stuff.

On which subject, a report from MIT says 95% of AI investment has delivered no impact on the P&L. Individuals are gaining efficiencies but organisations are dabbling, rather than doing the boring, complicated backend work that would have impact.

Naturally, the tech-bros are up in arms: “You measured the wrong stuff”, etc, yawn.

But are the rest of us surprised?

So far, AI mostly delivers us shortcuts. Sometimes useful, sometimes useless. Just today I’ve asked it for data on the growth of external workforces and it’s confidently served me numbers with no credible sources.

Which isn’t helping me brace for Back-to-School-September. So instead my coping-resolutions so far are:

📞 Upping the structure and deep work. No calls or meetings before 11am.

🔪 Sharper definition about talk subjects (will share soon).

🎨 More art making (my dining table is an explosion of supplies and joy).

🩻 No falling over chairs.

Let me know yours…

Christine