“My hope is that in the future, we are so focused on acquiring knowledge in our schools and our educational system, my hope is that we will also be focused on acquiring wisdom, if we know how to measure it and how to develop it.”

– Charlene Li

About Charlene Li

Charlene Li is an author, speaker, advisor and coach. For the last three decades she has worked at the edge of disruption, working with hundreds of major organizations, and founding the prominent analyst firm Altimeter Group. She is the New York Times bestselling author of six books, including Open Leadership and Groundswell. Her latest book, Winning with Generative AI: The 90-Day Blueprint for Success, lays out a master plan for generative AI strategy.

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What you will learn

• Exploring the edge of disruption with Charlene Li


• Amplifying cognition through generative AI


• The transformative role of AI in research and writing


• Developing the AI-powered development editor


• Customizing generative AI for personalized guidance


• Generative AI in email communication and productivity enhancement


• Crafting strategic business proposals with AI insights


• The importance of sharing and learning AI prompt libraries within organizations


• The strategic impact of generative AI on competitive advantage


• Harnessing generative AI for customer experience and operational efficiency


• Wisdom hacking: Enhancing decision-making and leadership

Episode Resources

• Generative AI


• Large Language Models (LLM)


• Custom GPT models


• AI prompt libraries


• Blaze.Today

Books

• Winning with Generative AI: The 90-Day Blueprint for Success by Charlene Li 


• The Disruption Mindset by Charlene Li 


• The Engaged Leader by Charlene Li 


• The Seven Success Factors of Social Business Strategy by Charlene Li 


• Open Leadership by Charlene Li 


• Marketing in the Groundswell by Charlene Li 


• Groundswell by Charlene Li 

Transcript

Ross Dawson: Charlene, it’s awesome to have you on the show.

Charlene Li: Thank you for having me.

Ross: So, how do you amplify your cognition? Which is pretty Apple to start with?

Charlene: A good question. Well, I do research and write my books. And I, basically it, especially with AI coming along, I looked at all the things that I do. And I realized that AI can address 70% of it and just, it just makes it so much easier. So a couple things. First of all, just researching, it’s so much faster now, with general AI, I use it constantly. Whenever I have a question, I’ll use one version of an LLM, probably perplexity and being also as well, to just get me the information and get into it a lot faster. I may find all those reports, bundle them all together and ask them to summarize it. And then a specific point, am I going to dig down deeper, it’s almost like having a research assistant. So it’s all the things I used to have a research assistant do for me, now I just have generated AI to do it for me. And it’s much faster and better and an expert on every subject that I could ever imagine. 

And then I also use it when I’m writing. And so I’ll write a first draft, like a fat outline, and I’ll give it to an AI and say you’re my development editor. Tell me, what am I missing? Ask me questions. So it’s literally a thought partner to make my thinking better. Because it can look at things from a different perspective. And I can give it different roles, different perspectives, you’re an expert, you’re brand new manager, look at this topic from many different directions and ask me questions on how I can make it better. So those are things and then I can use it to actually help me piece together some of the writing later on in the process.

Ross: Just to dig into each of those a li