It’s not leaderships job to hand you every tool on a silver platter. ICYMI: Tuesday night I addressed a room of several hundred folks who’ve worked with me over the last few years at the IMPACT Live Chicago event. Over this time I’ve garnered a reputation for being funny, easy going, a brimming with southern hospitality. The one thing I’m not nice about though is doing the work. My finest southern apologies if that ruffled your feathers. But it is no one’s job but your own to figure 👏🏼 it 👏🏼 out 👏🏼. Ai, particularly chatgpt, has one of the easiest ux designs of a complex software we’ve ever seen. You have the power to develop millions of unique and powerful tools all from tappy tapping on your keyboard for a few minutes. You don’t need me, or your marketing director, or your ceo, or your best friend to help you. You really just don’t. It is NOT hard! I too often hear that ai is “scary” or “confusing” or “not working right”. That “leadership is working on it for our team”. Those are all excuses to not do the work.It’s lazy. It’s entitled. It’s stale. If you’re a content writer, videographer, crm administrator, developer, strategist… only YOU know the real problems you face day to day. Your leadership is hosing down problems in every direction (hello recession, fancy seeing you again)- they don’t have time or bandwidth to hand hold through the creation of a simple custom gpt that you can generate in a couple hours tomorrow. We’ve said for a full year now that ai won’t take your job, someone using ai will. “Proficiency in generative AI” is the new “adept at Office 360”. Update your resume bullets now.
Bren Kinfa 💎
3mo
Absolutely spot on 👏 It's all about taking ownership of your growth and potential. Mandy York
Erin Fults
3mo
Really enjoyed your session as always Mandy! I very much appreciated that you said from stage that it’s no one’s job but your own to figure it out. Your session got my wheels turning about at least 2 custom GPTs I’m going to build.
Leadership won't do all the work for you. Time to step up
Passionate about the impact video can have on a business
3moIt was great hearing you speak on this. Reminded me of some of the best advice you gave me early on. Pick the one thing that I look forward to the least in my job and start thinking about how AI can solve that. And if that solution doesn't exist, build it out. Making custom GPT's is a lot easier than people expect. So start with that one recurring task you just don't want to do anymore and grow from there.