AI as a Sparring Partner: Leadership and Digital Transformation

Why have employees been ahead with AI for years, while their managers are still stuck in old-fashioned change management?

In this episode I talk with Joris Merks-Benjaminsen, former Head of Digital Transformation at Google and founder of Managing without Power. He wrote seven books on digital transformation and leadership, including Leidinggeven met AI (Leading with AI), and trains leaders to embrace AI not from strategy, but from their own experience.

We discuss, among other things:

• Why digital transformation is really a leadership problem, not a technology problem
• The difference between lazy and active use of AI, and how to recognise it as a manager
• Why "secret" AI use in your team points to a missed opportunity rather than a risk
• How to use AI to prepare for a conversation with a person, not to replace it