Rethink how you think
Ask one question before touching any task: can AI help here, and does this need doing at all?
Then the team. Everyone runs the same question, so work AI could handle stops landing on your desk.
Honest answer in five minutes. Tell me your role and what you actually spend your week on. I'll tell you how much of it AI can already do, and what your next 90 days should look like.
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Get your personal AI roadmap → Subscribe to the Diary on LinkedIn →The founder makes each shift first, then it rolls out to the team, which is where the compounding lives.
Ask one question before touching any task: can AI help here, and does this need doing at all?
Then the team. Everyone runs the same question, so work AI could handle stops landing on your desk.
Every block of time is a candidate for collapse: the 30-minute email that is really a 3-minute draft.
Then the team. Each person spots where AI fits their own work and rebuilds it themselves.
AI wired under the daily, weekly and monthly rhythm, which is how you give the brain a body.
Then the team. The whole team runs on the same infrastructure, same context, same speed.
Leon McQuade is Co-founder and Chief AI Officer at Think Cloud, writing the Diary of a Chief AI Officer from Hull. Featured by LinkedIn News UK, Guinness World Records holder, working with UK founders and leadership teams on AI adoption that survives contact with a real organisation.
Your role, what you actually spend the week on, how much of it AI can already do, and what the next 90 days should look like.
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