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30th May 2025

The Million-Dollar AI Mistake Most Business Leaders Are About to Make -- for biz owners only

Most business leaders think they know how to profit from AI. Even though no one actually says it out loud, a lot of the push is coming from the desire to become more efficicent, reduce staff, and enjoy the jump in profitability. Those are certainly true. But by looking at AI with the lens, it's likely many business owners are also, at the same time, likely to miss the real opportunity worth millions.

In this episode, AI consultant and leadership coach Adele Wang explains why the companies firing half their workforce might make short-term gains, but the companies keeping their people will dominate the market long-term. It's the story of two companies, similar to a gold rush analogy. By merely reducing staff and giving everyone better tools, it still presents some of the same assumptions that many business owners have about work in general.

It's time to re-evaluate basic assumptions on "productivity". Through the story of two companies and a powerful gold rush analogy, you'll discover how business owners of the future will need to focus more on leadership than management.

In other words, smart leaders of the future will look beyond mining gold with better tools, and be more interested in using their people to tap into the mother lode of opportunity.

Perfect for: Business owners, executives, team leaders, and anyone implementing AI in their organization. Or if you just wonder about human nature, psychology and what runs through the minds of business leaders amidst a gold rush of AI...

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About the Podcast

All Things Human with Adele Wang
How power works, in people and in machines.
How power works, in people and in machines. Especially in this time of massive and hyper-rapid change.

Adele Wang watches how people behave, in organizations and in ordinary life, and says the part most people leave out.

Some episodes are about work. Who decides, who gets blamed, what happens when nobody quite owns a decision. Some are about relationships. Why you know your neighbor's dog's name and not theirs. What we want from each other and what we're willing to admit we want.

The through line is the same either way. What's really going on underneath the thing everyone agrees to say.

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