Five Ways to Lead Better with AI

Most of the conversation about AI in organisations circles around efficiency. Faster emails. Quicker summaries. Automated reports.

But that framing misses something more interesting.

The leaders I work with aren't struggling because they're inefficient. They're struggling because they're isolated, overloaded with decisions, and operating without enough honest thinking partnership around them. The question worth asking isn't "how can AI save me time?" It's "can AI help me do things I'm currently not doing at all?"

I think the answer is yes.

Five roles worth thinking about

In this week's LinkedIn article - the second in my Closing the Leadership AI Gap series - I write about five specific ways AI can make you a better leader. Not more productive. Better.

AI as thinking partner. As mirror. As rehearsal room. As analyst. As democratiser.

Each one addresses something leaders genuinely struggle with. The isolation. The lack of honest feedback. The conversations they avoid preparing for. The analytical resource they no longer have around them.

I share examples from my own experience - including a wobble I had a few weeks ago about where the business was going, and what happened when I took it to Claude rather than a colleague.

There's a warning in there too

Harvard Business Review flagged something important last year: while AI can create space for higher-order thinking, it can also tempt us to outsource that thinking altogether.

That risk is real. And it's worth reading about before you dive in.

The full article is on LinkedIn. It takes about five minutes to read and ends with a question worth sitting with.

If you want the thinking behind the thinking, subscribe to Taggart's People on Substack - where I publish a companion piece for each article in the series.