Operator. Mentor. Strategic Adviser at Grace Media Digital | CIO at Aristotle. 3 decades of building orgs and the people in them. Instagram - @RobWomack
Technology can replicate a lesson. It can't replicate the decision to show up.
That's the Enduring Principle from my new piece on Toy Story, leadership, and what a franchise that started in 1995 is still teaching me thirty-one years later.
https://t.co/yF6YSzXSeN
Look at the Toy Story 5 poster. The whole crew is alarmed. In the foreground: a cheerful tablet that says "Hi! Let's play!"
That's the org chart conversation most leadership teams aren't having yet.
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There's a scene near the end of Top Gun: Maverick most people don't flag as the emotional center.
*"I just wish I would've done it better."*
New piece on what it actually costs to care about someone's future and still get it wrong.
https://t.co/xvGQv4GcQS
The biggest bet in AI right now isn't a new model. It's humans, placed inside organizations, helping other humans change how they work.
The tool is never the constraint. The question is always who inside your organization has the judgment to deploy it well.
Today weโre launching the OpenAI Deployment Company to help businesses build and deploy AI.
It's majority-owned and controlled by OpenAI. It brings together 19 leading investment firms, consultancies, and system integrators to help organizations deploy frontier AI to production for business impact. https://t.co/GnyjGFaLLA
"People always respond best to personal attention. It is the simplest and easiest truth to forget."
โ Jerry Maguire's mission statement, 1996 https://t.co/FGVH4uhMwB
The most important decisions of your career wonโt look like strategy.
Theyโll look like lunch.
The people you meet. The trust you build. The conversations that seem ordinary in the moment. They will pay dividends you canโt yet see.
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Ray got to make his list. He just ran out of time to finish it.
If you have seven minutes this week โ watch the film first.
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Don't hide from the tools. Master them. Let the machine handle the draft so you can perfect the craft. Read "The Scarcity of Judgment": #AI#Leadership https://t.co/YgB0xGEjjt
We are confusing speed with value.
As AI makes intelligence a commodity, your competitive advantage is no longer the techโitโs the culture that wields it.
The future belongs to leaders who can stay human when the work changes.
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We often celebrate the wins, but the sustaining version of leadership shows up when the outcome is different than expected. Sean McVay didnโt talk about legacy; he talked about his people. #seanmcvay#Rams@RamsNFL
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A win wouldโve been nice, but it was still the greatest night of my football life. Itโs the moment that I will always remember when the real reason for football clicked in. Football isnโt just a game played with a ball on a field. Itโs not just 3-D chess with men colliding. Itโs human connection. Itโs family genetics. Itโs an allegiance passed from generation to generation. I witnessed my son standing in the same place that I stand, screaming at a black square with color pixels for an orange and blue team as if somehow his cries could affect the outcome of the game. Last night was the night that I knew I had done my real job as a Bears fan. I pass the game to the next generation. I shared a forever loyalty. He is fully on his way on a life time journey or highs and lows, love and loss, passion and grit, strategy and might, joy and disappointment. And when the day comes where my son and I are at an impasse. We can always talk about the Bears.
The Taylor Swift documentary reminded me that great leadership is architecture. You donโt control the people; you build the room.
My breakdown on the biology of leadership and why you need to be a "Fountain".
#TaylorSwift#Leadership#Culture
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Tom has always approached his work with a fearlessness that's rare & contagious. Receiving the honorary Oscar felt like what many have known for years: TC is the very soul of passion in cinema. Congrats, my friend. Let the celebration continue from story to story & film to film.