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Michael Earls
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Aug 29, 2026
Ep.71 Finding Direction in the Age of AI. Michael Earls, Tech Leader. Cincinnati, Ohio
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Nate LeslieHOST
But inside a business, as things are moving so fast, what do you see it? I see a disconnect.

Michael EarlsGUEST
Why? What's the North Star? What is the direction? What are we trying to accomplish? And a lot of leaders today are, unfortunately, they're doing what the board says or what the market says.

Michael EarlsGUEST
They're actually not going back and saying, do we require this? Do we need this today? Where's it going to save us in time, attention? Is this going to drive revenue for us? Is this going to decrease revenue? So I spend a lot of my time today talking to companies on how to actually enable AI.

Michael EarlsGUEST
Where does it fit in their business process? What are they going to gain from that? What are they going to lose from it? And the biggest thing that they always lose is they go, well, I'm going to replace Johnny with AI and AI agents to do Johnny's work.

Michael EarlsGUEST
And I go, what's Johnny going to do? Who's going to manage these AI agents? Who's going to build the identity around them? And then once you start looking at that, we're back to where we started in the cloud days of IT sprawl.

Michael EarlsGUEST
We saw lines of business going out and building cloud applications because IT wasn't moving fast enough for them.
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Finding Direction in the Age of AI with Michael Earls
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11:13AbrahamHOST
Yeah.

Michael EarlsGUEST
And then all of a sudden, what do we do now? We're treating machines as humans.

Michael EarlsGUEST
Can you help me? And all of a sudden you start using your machine as a counselor or as a doctor.
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15:14AbrahamHOST
How can they distinguish between healthy momentum and simply reacting to everything happening around them?
Know the Room, Own the Room: How Michael Earls Uses Humor to Keep Leadership Human in the Age of AI
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Michael EarlsGUEST
'Cause I'm real serious about it, like, "I got pulled over." And then I start telling the story, and they go, "Oh my God, he really did get pulled over for driving a stolen car." And then I start talking about how it relates back to data and how data can...

Michael EarlsGUEST
So long story short, I got pulled over in Memphis at 2:00 in the morning, and I always describe it as I went left, the cop went left.
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AI Pilots Fail Because Leaders Optimize Wrong | Michael Earls
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Khudania AjayHOST
איך אתה רוצה שהאנשים ידעו, אפילו קבוצה קצת, על אי-אי-איניטייטיבים? האם זה על אי-אי-איניטייטיבים שהארגניזציות עושות? או גם על אנשים שעובדים על אי-אי-איניטייטיבים ומתחילים לקרוא משהו לסמכים שלהם?

Michael EarlsGUEST
פשוט פשוט בגבי אנשים ואת מה שאני אומר על זה זה שאין קודם פעולה בבקשה, אין קבוצה, בגבי זה, הפרסומים לא נמצאים, ואז נכונות מתחילות, אז כשאתם כנראה, תגידו קצת יותר לזה, שזה האנגלית התחלת עם סטרטגיה בבקשה? האנגלית לא התחלת.
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Khudania AjayHOST
למה זה ככה? האם יש איזו סטוריה אחר כך? האם יש איזו סביבה סביבה אחר כך? או זה ככה שאתה? אתם יודעים,
