18. AI Is Not a Technology Problem. It’s a Management Problem | Patrick Bell

AI may look like a technology initiative, but Patrick Bell argues that its biggest challenges are human and managerial.

Patrick is a business-growth strategist, AI transformation practitioner, author, and doctoral researcher whose career has taken him through 55 countries and across business, education, consulting, and software. In this conversation, we explore why AI puts simultaneous pressure on leadership, teams, structures, and governance, and why small organizational “wobbles” become much harder to control when the pace accelerates.

Patrick also shares what employees can do to remain valuable, why universities should raise the standard instead of simply banning AI, how leaders can evaluate AI consultants, and what humane leadership looks like when technology changes someone’s role.

We also discuss Patrick and David Lively’s book, The Parrot and the Architect, and the difference between someone who repeats the language of AI and someone who can show what they have actually built.

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