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AI gives you the average, not the edge
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
Editorial outline
Follow the useful thread.
Cathal establishes the tension behind the episode and asks where the accepted workplace answer stops being useful.
Ask what would have to be true before arguing over what is true.
Cathal and Annette test the idea against real working life and turn it into a question a listener can use next.
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