Speaker 1: I'm trying to kill myself in sixty days. That's how
Speaker 1: Georgie Holt describes her latest experiment with AI, not literally,
Speaker 1: of course, but her mission was to see if she
Speaker 1: could hand over the operational side of her CEO role
Speaker 1: to AI and free herself up completely. Georgie is the
Speaker 1: co founder of flight Story alongside Stephen Bartlett, who you
Speaker 1: might know from Diary of a CEO, and by the
Speaker 1: end of this quick Win episode you will hear how
Speaker 1: Georgie built a tool that slashed twenty to twenty five
Speaker 1: hours from her week and changed the way she shows
Speaker 1: up as a leader. Welcome to How I Work, a
Speaker 1: show about habits, rituals, and strategies for optimizing your date.
Speaker 1: I'm your host, doctor Amantha Imber. I love that example.
Speaker 1: I want to digg into how you built that, Like
Speaker 1: is this something that anyone can build, you know, with
Speaker 1: the tool like report, which is a vibe coding tool
Speaker 1: for mere mortals who are not programmers. Or is this
Speaker 1: something where you built a GPT and chat jpt so
Speaker 1: or did you have a programmer help you? What did
Speaker 1: that look like?
Speaker 2: I built it in a GPT, I sat down and
Speaker 2: mapped out the process end to end. I worked with
Speaker 2: GPT a lot, so it has a standing of who
Speaker 2: I am, how I work, or you know, the kind
Speaker 2: of leader and sort of character I am, and so
Speaker 2: it sort of understands some of my watch points when
Speaker 2: I'm interviewing with somebody. And then I sat down with
Speaker 2: our data scientists. I said, look, I think I've got
Speaker 2: something here, and I would like to spend some time
Speaker 2: just qualifying whether you think I have to, and we
Speaker 2: asked the GPT to build it. So we challenged it
Speaker 2: to build it for us, and I gave it everything
Speaker 2: that I wanted to achieve. I spoke to it a lot,
Speaker 2: so it wasn't just entire I kind of had a
Speaker 2: conversation with it, explained my pain points, explain what I
Speaker 2: want to create, what I think I wanted it to,
Speaker 2: show what it needed to do for me, and we
Speaker 2: went back and forth like a team, and we brainstormed
Speaker 2: with the GPT, and eventually it built itself.
Speaker 1: That is amazing. I would love to hear a couple
Speaker 1: of other examples of where AI has completely changed your workflows.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I have this deep feeling around AI that is
Speaker 2: one of our greatest tools. But my fear is that
Speaker 2: it will sometimes take away the most important thing that
Speaker 2: we have, which is our ability to summarize intellectually really
Speaker 2: important problems and challenges. Because I think one of the
Speaker 2: biggest skills that a leader can learn over time is
Speaker 2: the ability to assimilate and summarize information and then take
Speaker 2: that information you distribute it into an organization, distribute it
Speaker 2: into a team, understanding how the sales team might want
Speaker 2: to receive it, understanding how a data science team wants
Speaker 2: to receive it. Because your job as a leader is
Speaker 2: to take a team on a journey with you. So
Speaker 2: we took inspiration from the great writing machines of the world,
Speaker 2: and I think, and I looked to Hollywood, if I
Speaker 2: looked to Hollywood Studios, and I looked at the great
Speaker 2: narrative creators in the world, and I thought, well, what
Speaker 2: do they have. They have a writer's room. So quite
Speaker 2: often they will have building out narrative or building out scripting.
Speaker 2: They will have multiple writers attacking a challenge or a
Speaker 2: storyline from all different perspectives, and they'll all come together
Speaker 2: to debate and discuss those different points of view. And
Speaker 2: I thought, well, what an interesting thing to try and build.
Speaker 2: Because I don't want chat GPT to write for me,
Speaker 2: but I want it to challenge what I'm writing. So
Speaker 2: I asked it whether I thought it could build out
Speaker 2: a writer's room for me, and we would have different
Speaker 2: personas as each writer to anyone from the sort of
Speaker 2: the format and the function expert, to the disruptor, to
Speaker 2: the emotional story arc to the person who maybe wrote
Speaker 2: for sort of more Jeopardy. And so I basically constructed
Speaker 2: a writer. I said, look, what are the eight archetypes
Speaker 2: of a writer's room that you might find in Hollywood?
Speaker 2: What are the great script writers? Do you think we
Speaker 2: could build out a writer's room or all of those
Speaker 2: personas exist? And if I write something and I can
Speaker 2: call on you, I can literally say, please bring the
Speaker 2: writer's room to this piece of communication and challenge it.
Speaker 2: So I now have a writer's room. So everything that
Speaker 2: I create, which I think I have got to a
Speaker 2: good enough place, I will then put it into the
Speaker 2: writer's room and they'll challenge it and say the emotional
Speaker 2: art isn't strong enough, or this could be format about that.
Speaker 2: Actually the disrupture will come in. And so you could
Speaker 2: create such a more compelling narrative if you put in
Speaker 2: a little bit of jeopardy, So they don't write for
Speaker 2: me because I am extremely conscious and I think it's
Speaker 2: one of our greatest challenges that we are going to
Speaker 2: lose some of the things that make humans extremely special,
Speaker 2: and that is storytelling, and that is the ability to
Speaker 2: summarize and distill information to the world in a way
Speaker 2: that is well understood. And I think about Google Maps.
Speaker 2: It's like, when was the last time you really remember
Speaker 2: the direction to somewhere unless it was somewhere within sort
Speaker 2: of twenty miles of your home. So I am concerned
Speaker 2: that we're going to lose our way, and we're going
Speaker 2: to lose how to remember how to do things and
Speaker 2: do things well in the same way we just rely
Speaker 2: on Google Maps, we leave the house and we hand
Speaker 2: over the direction of our journey to somebody else. I
Speaker 2: would hate to think we were handing over our creativity
Speaker 2: and our consciousness to something.
Speaker 1: What stayed with me from Georgie's story is how AI
Speaker 1: gave her the most valuable resource back time, not to
Speaker 1: cram in more tasks, but to be fully present with people.
Speaker 1: So the next time you're heading into an interview or
Speaker 1: a high stakes meeting, think how could you strip away
Speaker 1: the admin so that you can show up with curiosity
Speaker 1: instead of distraction. And of course, if you want to
Speaker 1: go and listen to my full chat with Georgie, there
Speaker 1: is a link in the show notes. If you like
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