{"id":59091,"date":"2024-03-11T11:50:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T00:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clarityfirstprogram.com\/?p=59091"},"modified":"2024-05-02T15:55:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T05:55:14","slug":"how-to-be-human-when-communicating-with-senior-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clarityfirstprogram.com\/how-to-be-human-when-communicating-with-senior-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"How to be human when communicating with senior leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A couple of situations this week reminded me of the importance of differentiating between \u2018content\u2019 and \u2018context\u2019.<\/p>\n

On the one hand I was listening to a fascinating podcast where Lex Fridman interviewed Yann Lecun, Chief AI Scientist at Meta about the abilities and limitations of AI.<\/p>\n

On the other, I was reviewing communication to provide suggestions to participants from one of my corporate board paper writing programs.<\/p>\n

What fascinated me here was that much of the communication I was reviewing was ‘content' that lacked ‘context'.<\/p>\n

This bothered me because placing content in the right context is not only central to our uniqueness as humans, but essential if we want to engage senior decision makers.<\/p>\n

And yet, I see teams frequently skipping this foundational step in the rush to finish their paper.<\/p>\n

I get that thinking feels slow and that ‘writing' feels like ‘doing', but it reminds me of a comment made by an old boss of mine. “activity does not guarantee impact”.<\/p>\n

With the right inputs, AI can deliver lots of content.<\/p>\n

So far (!) we humans are the only ones that can take ‘content' and add ‘context' to have impact.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s be human.<\/p>\n

I hope that helps.<\/p>\n

More soon.
Dav<\/p>\n

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