The deliberate practice of filtering, delegating, or automating the flood of AI-generated outputs to prevent executive decision paralysis.
AI makes it easy to generate 50 options for every problem. The problem is that you still only have one brain to evaluate them. If you try to review every AI-generated draft, you will burn out before lunch.
This is the new executive bottleneck. You are no longer a producer of work, but an editor and judge of machine output. You must build filters that decide what gets your attention and what gets ignored, or you will drown in the noise.
A partner at a firm started using AI to draft every client email. The volume of drafts became so high that the partner spent all day reviewing AI text instead of talking to clients.
As a CMO, I stopped asking for 'more ideas' from my AI tools. I now ask for 'the three most contrarian perspectives' to save my own mental bandwidth.
My product team used to spend weeks on research. Now they use AI to summarize it. I shifted from reviewing raw data to reviewing high-level strategic summaries.
A legal team used AI to draft contracts. The lead attorney felt obligated to read every word, effectively doing the work twice and losing all time savings.
