What AI can't do for your strategy
Roger Martin explains the four-word question he uses in boardrooms and why a mode-seeking machine cannot make a distinctive strategic choice for you.
Ask what would have to be true before arguing over what is true.
AI is excellent at finding the middle of the distribution.
A strategy that looks like everyone else's is not worth having.
If everybody else is doing it, it is not a distinctive strategy.
Roger L. Martin
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Ask what would have to be true before arguing over what is true.
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