I wrote Leadership Intelligence to help you bring the best out of the humans you work with—and ultimately, that is deeply human work. As I say in the book, you can’t really subcontract to a machine the job of reading a room, building a relationship, or lifting people’s spirits when they’re flagging. But you can use AI to sharpen your thinking as you prepare for the moments that matter, and to take some of the more mechanical load off your plate so you have more room for judgment and care.

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This guide is my attempt to help you do that. I haven’t tied the advice to any specific AI tools, because everybody has their own favorites, and AI capabilities change daily. I’ll of course keep this guide updated as things evolve, but I’m hoping the principles below should hold up for a while. The underlying message isn’t really about the technology in any case—it’s about the quality of your thinking, and how to protect and strengthen it.

A quick word before we start. None of what follows assumes you’re an AI enthusiast, and none of it assumes you’re a skeptic. Reasonable, thoughtful people currently sit all along that spectrum, and I’d encourage you to bring as much caution as you’d bring to any other powerful and imperfect adviser.