Most teams treat AI like a shiny tool and brainstorming like a meeting. Both are wrong. In this week’s The Next Step, we dig into AI as a leadership skill—how you think, ask, and decide—not a software purchase. And we pair it with a dead-simple 3-day brainstorm cadence that actually ships original ideas.
Steal these ideas:
AI as a teammate: How to prompt like a leader (framing, constraints, counterfactuals).
Persuasion > answers: Use AI to build cases stakeholders say “yes” to—pricing, tradeoffs, risk.
Day 1–3 cadence: Why short sprints beat marathon “brainstorms” (and produce distinct concepts).
Proof over puffery: Turn fuzzy claims into testable statements your CFO won’t roll their eyes at.
If you lead TA/EB and want fewer generic ideas and more decisions that stick, this one’s your playbook.
Three Ears Media: http://threeearsmedia.com
The Bound Back Factor: http://thebouncebackfactorbook.com
The YA Leader’s Guide to AI: http://choosable.work/ai
—James
(P.S. Share with a manager who still thinks buying a tool = having a skill.)
