Oct 12, 2026 · 43 min · 13 segments
Most AI adoption fails because leaders ask the wrong question: "How can we use AI in our current workflows?" instead of "How should this workflow be redesigned?" In this episode, host Michael Marchuk…
Jon CheneyGuestMichael MarchukHostToday we're unpacking what business leaders are getting wrong about AI adoption and why most teams are stuck using tools rather than redesigning how work actually gets done.
Um, my guest today is John Cheney, founder of the GenAIPI, and he'll tell you exactly what that means in a moment.
And he's a leading voice on how non-technical teams can build real, measurable AI capabilities.
We'll explore how, why, how and why AI proficiency needs to become a trackable competency inside organizations, and what workflow revision really looks like, how leaders ne- are confusing surface usage with genuine transformation.
So GenAIPI is the short way to say the General AI Proficiency Institute, right? And so as our name suggests, we are all about helping companies and people figure out how to use AI, right? How to use it in the right way, how to use it in ways that also focus on humans, right? We, uh, you know, if you, if you go on our website and you look at genaipi.org/doctrine, um, you'll, you'll see that our, you know, w- it's all about preserving human agency, and the best way to preserve your agency is to stay in control, right? If we let AI run off and start taking over all of our jobs, and all of a sudden have to become dependent on, I don't know, a universal basic income or something like that, then, you know, we're not gonna, you know...
I- if, i- if the people paying us that universal basic income don't like what we say or like what we do or like how we are, then, uh, maybe they'll stop paying us, right? And so ultimately, we want to empower people to be able to, um, empower themselves to enable their companies to be able to use AI in ways that really move the needle.
Today we're unpacking what business leaders are getting wrong about AI adoption and why most teams are stuck using tools rather than redesigning how work actually gets done.
Um, my guest today is John Cheney, founder of the GenAIPI, and he'll tell you exactly what that means in a moment.
And he's a leading voice on how non-technical teams can build real, measurable AI capabilities.
We'll explore how, why, how and why AI proficiency needs to become a trackable competency inside organizations, and what workflow revision really looks like, how leaders ne- are confusing surface usage with genuine transformation.
So GenAIPI is the short way to say the General AI Proficiency Institute, right? And so as our name suggests, we are all about helping companies and people figure out how to use AI, right? How to use it in the right way, how to use it in ways that also focus on humans, right? We, uh, you know, if you, if you go on our website and you look at genaipi.org/doctrine, um, you'll, you'll see that our, you know, w- it's all about preserving human agency, and the best way to preserve your agency is to stay in control, right? If we let AI run off and start taking over all of our jobs, and all of a sudden have to become dependent on, I don't know, a universal basic income or something like that, then, you know, we're not gonna, you know...
I- if, i- if the people paying us that universal basic income don't like what we say or like what we do or like how we are, then, uh, maybe they'll stop paying us, right? And so ultimately, we want to empower people to be able to, um, empower themselves to enable their companies to be able to use AI in ways that really move the needle.
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