• Geoff Woods, The AI-Driven Leader
• https://www.aileadership.com

这是第一本自己用大模型翻译后阅读的书。书没全部读完，仅展示已阅读部分摘录。

The AI-Driven Leader

The Rise of AI and the AI-Driven Leader

• The process of defining your strategy, then aligning your actions to achieve your most ambitious goals. This critical skill is the backbone of effective leadership, and the difference between you becoming a visionary leader, or a mere manager.

  • 确定战略目标后，再调整自身行为以达成这些宏伟目标——这一关键能力构成了有效领导力的基础，也决定了你是否会成为具有前瞻性的领导者，还是仅局限于执行管理任务的普通管理者。

• For the first time in history, there is a way to make faster, smarter decisions without any of the sacrifice: by harnessing artificial intelligence as your strategic Thought Partner.

  • 历史上首次出现了一种方法，可以在不牺牲任何东西的前提下做出更快、更明智的决策：那就是将人工智能作为自己的战略“思考伙伴”来使用。

• The true game changer isn’t using AI to craft better emails; it’s harnessing AI to elevate your strategic thinking.

  • 真正的变革不在于用 AI 来帮助你写出更优秀的邮件，而在于利用 AI 来提升你的战略思维能力。

• As leaders, we are not strangers to the immense pressure to deliver fast results. Delivering in the short term is important, but the pressure can skew our focus, causing us to sacrifice the long-term priorities that sustain growth. The challenge lies not only in the pressure to produce quick wins but also in the natural tendency of organizations to reward short-term performance. This creates a culture where decisions are made with a narrow focus, potentially compromising your long-term competitive advantage.

  • 作为领导者，我们深知那种要求我们迅速取得成果的巨大压力。在短期内取得成效固然重要，但这种压力往往会让我们偏离正确的方向，导致我们牺牲那些对长期发展至关重要的优先事项。面临的挑战不仅在于需要迅速取得成功（即“快速获胜”），还在于组织本身倾向于奖励那些短期内表现优异的员工或项目。这种做法会形成一种“目光短浅”的文化环境，导致决策时只考虑短期利益，从而可能损害企业的长期竞争优势。

• You should be asking, “What are the skills I can master that are so valuable they will serve me no matter where I go? And what jobs can help me develop those skills?”

  • 你应该问的是：“我应该掌握哪些具有高价值的技能？无论我去哪里工作，这些技能都能对我有所帮助；同时，哪些工作能够帮助我培养这些技能呢？”

• If you see AI as just another Google or a tool for writing better emails, you’re selling yourself short.

  • 如果你认为人工智能只不过是另一个类似谷歌的工具，或者只是用来帮助人们撰写更高质量电子邮件的工具，那你就是在低估自己的潜力。

We’ve Been Here Before: What Past Technological Revolutions Can Teach AI-Driven Leaders

• AI won’t replace you; those who harness AI will replace those who don’t.

  • 人工智能不会取代人类；真正能够利用人工智能的人，才会取代那些无法利用它的人。

• Steve Jobs recognized that strategy meant building an advantage in the long term through the actions taken in the short term.

  • 史蒂夫·乔布斯深刻理解这一道理：长期的优势需要通过短期的行动来积累。

• Strategic thinking and decision-making have always been critical leadership skills. However, our education system often grades you on your ability to have the answer, not on your ability to search for one. The problem is, this approach falls short in the business world, where you are faced with a multitude of puzzle pieces without a clear picture to reference. Great strategic thinkers are masters of asking questions they don’t yet have the answer to and searching for those answers. Developing this skill on your own requires practice, but AI can collapse the learning curve.

  • 战略思维与决策能力始终是重要的领导力素质。然而，我们的教育体系通常会根据一个人能否立刻给出答案来评价他的表现，而不是看他是否具备主动去寻找答案的能力。问题在于：在商业环境中，这种情况显得尤为不足——因为商界面临的是众多复杂的难题（这些难题缺乏明确的框架或线索作为参考）。优秀的战略思考者能够善于提出那些自己尚无答案的问题，并持续努力去寻找答案。虽然培养这种能力需要实践，但人工智能技术可以显著缩短学习所需的时间与过程。

• While this is an exciting opportunity, it’s important to acknowledge your people’s fears and worries. Many are concerned about losing their jobs, while others worry about the broader impact AI might have on humanity. Their fears are legitimate. The difference between AI’s impact being net positive or negative lies not in the technology itself but in the leaders using it. In this way, history is repeating itself.

  • 虽然这确实是一个令人兴奋的机会，但我们必须重视员工们的恐惧与担忧。许多人担心自己会失业；另一些人则担心人工智能可能对人类社会产生的更广泛影响。他们的担忧是完全合理的。人工智能最终是带来积极影响还是负面影响，并不取决于这项技术本身，而取决于使用该技术的领导者。从这个角度来看，历史正在重演。

• Real leadership means balancing profit with a commitment to moving humanity forward in a positive way.

  • 真正的领导力意味着在追求利润的同时，也要致力于以积极的方式推动人类进步。

• The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Let’s learn from our past and commit to using AI as a tool to build better businesses and better lives.

  • 所谓“愚蠢”，就是不断重复同样的行为却期待不同的结果。让我们从过去吸取教训，将人工智能作为工具，用来打造更优秀的商业环境和更好的生活。

• While AI can replace many things, it can’t replace the value of human connection and leadership. Technology transforms industries, but human guidance is essential in shaping a future that prioritizes well-being and ethical use.

  • 尽管人工智能可以替代很多东西，但它无法取代人与人之间的情感联系以及领导者的作用。虽然技术会推动产业变革，但只有通过人类的智慧和判断力，才能创造出真正重视人类福祉并遵循道德原则的未来。

• What you do today may not be what you do tomorrow. Skills and processes change over time, but this doesn’t mean you will lose your job. It means your role might evolve, either within the same company or in a different one. This shift doesn’t replace you as a human; it transforms how you work from the old way to the new way. View this as an opportunity to advance your career, develop valuable skills, and find more fulfillment. Resist, and you may struggle with the transition and risk losing your competitive edge.

  • 今天你做的事情，明天可能就不再做了。随着时间的推移，你的技能和工作方式会发生变化，但这并不意味着你会失去工作——反而意味着你的职责可能会发生变化，无论是在同一家公司内，还是换到另一家公司。这种变化并不会取代你作为一个人本身的价值；它只是让你从过去的工作方式转变为新的工作方式而已。把这种情况看作是提升职业生涯、培养宝贵技能以及获得更多成就感的机会吧。如果你抗拒这种变化，可能会在适应过程中遇到困难，并因此失去竞争优势。

• As an AI-driven leader, your job isn’t to ensure your people’s happiness or eliminate their fear. It’s to build the best business possible in an ethical manner, keeping your people’s interests at the center. I call this leading with empathetic strength. This means balancing the space for your people’s fears and concerns with the strength to make decisions in the best interest of the business.

  • 作为一名由人工智能辅助的领导者，你的职责并不是让员工感到幸福或消除他们的恐惧，而是通过道德的方式打造最好的企业，并始终将员工的利益放在首位。我将这种领导方式称为“以同理心为基础的领导力”。这意味着要在尊重员工的需求与顾虑的同时，具备果断决策的能力，从而为企业带来最大的利益。

• It is also a shift from the industrial mindset of “learn once, apply forever” to an AI-driven mindset of “learn constantly, thrive continuously.” Creating a culture that focuses on skill development will be a core part of your people strategy moving forward.

  • 我们的思维模式也在发生变化：从“学一次，终身受用”的工业时代思维模式，转变为“持续学习、不断进步”的AI时代思维模式。在未来，营造一种重视技能发展的企业文化将成为人力资源管理策略的核心内容。

Shift From Operational Overwhelm to Strategic Clarity: The Essential Mindset for AI-Driven Leaders

• The adoption curve reminds you that your goal is not to get everyone on board immediately. Remember, big changes start with small actions. This means focus on one group at a time. Start with your innovators. Help them get value, and then move on to the early adopters, and so on. By tailoring your strategy to meet each group’s needs, you’ll ensure a smoother transition to becoming AI-driven.

  • “采用曲线”告诉我们：我们的目标不是立即让所有人接受新技术。重大变革总是从小步骤开始的，因此应该一次专注于一个群体。首先帮助创新者让他们受益，然后逐步扩展到早期采用者等。通过根据每个群体的需求调整策略，公司能更顺利地实现向人工智能驱动的转型。

• Remember, the goal is not to replace your people with AI but to enhance them. Focus on developing the right skills and processes for an AI-driven organization. With the right leadership, AI can become a powerful tool to drive growth and improve the lives of your people.

  • 请记住，目标并不是用人工智能取代员工，而是利用人工智能来提升他们的工作效率与能力。重点在于为那些由人工智能驱动的组织培养所需的技能和流程。在正确的领导之下，人工智能可以成为推动业务增长、改善员工生活的重要工具。

• Just like in a human relationship, the quality of your communication determines the quality of your results. With AI, this is called prompt engineering. Once you learn how to communicate with AI, you can start creating extraordinary results, much like how learning to play the piano enables you to create beautiful music. The key is learning to communicate effectively with AI.

  • 就像在人际交往中一样，沟通的质量直接决定了最终成果的质量。在人工智能领域，这个过程被称为“提示设计”（Prompt Engineering）。一旦掌握了与人工智能交流的技巧，你就能创造出非凡的成绩；就如同学习钢琴后能够创作出美妙的音乐一样。关键就在于学会如何高效地与人工智能进行互动。

Become an AI-Driven Leader

Understand AI: What It Is, How It Works, and How to Get Started

• Start by clearly defining your goals and the challenges you need to overcome. Then, consider which tools can best help you achieve those goals. AI is one of them.

  • 你需要明确自己的目标以及需要克服的障碍；接下来再思考哪些工具最能够帮助你实现这些目标——AI只是其中之一而已。

• Regardless of your AI readiness, my advice is consistent for every company: start by using AI to increase employee productivity. Your employees represent one of the biggest line items on your P&L, yet much of their time is spent in meetings and on low-value tasks. This means you are getting a lower ROI on your people than you could be. By raising the productivity of your people, you will be building a better business and better lives.

  • 无论您的企业在使用人工智能（AI）方面准备得如何，我的建议对所有公司都是一样的：首先利用 AI 来提高员工的工作效率。员工是您企业利润和成本构成中的重要因素之一，但他们的大部分时间都被浪费在会议以及低价值的任务上。因此，您从员工身上获得的回报（ROI）其实远低于应有的水平。通过提升员工的工作效率，您将能够打造出更加高效的企业环境，并改善员工的生活质量。

• True fulfillment comes from sharing meaningful moments with the people who matter most.

  • 真正的满足感，只能来自于与那些对自己最重要的人共度有意义的时光。

• The key is your communication. This is not a new skill. But in the context of AI, it will separate those who merely dabble with AI and those who wield it to build a competitive advantage.

  • 关键在于你的沟通能力。这其实并不是一项全新的技能；但在人工智能（AI）的背景下，良好的沟通能力能够帮助你区分那些只是浅尝辄止、对 AI 应用一知半解的人，以及那些真正能够利用 AI 来建立竞争优势的人。

Supercharge Your Leadership: Five AI Use Cases You Can Use Today

• As an AI-driven leader, one of your primary goals is to make better, faster decisions that drive sustainable business growth.

  • 作为一位依靠人工智能来辅助决策的领导者，您的主要目标之一就是更快、更明智地做出决策，从而推动企业的持续发展。

The High Price of The Wrong Questions: Using AI to Overcome Biases and Assumptions

• The key to getting rich and staying that way is to avoid doing stupid things. I don’t need to do more smart things; I just need to stop doing a few dumb things. I need to avoid making emotional decisions and swinging at bad pitches. I need to think.

  • 致富并保持财富的关键在于避免犯愚蠢的错误。我并不需要做更多“聪明”的事情；只需要停止做一些愚蠢的事情罢了。我必须避免基于情绪做出决定，也不要对那些看似糟糕（但实际上可能并不糟糕）的机会贸然采取行动。我需要学会冷静思考、理性分析。

• As an AI-driven leader, it’s crucial to understand how our minds can sometimes steer us wrong. Cognitive biases, those sneaky mental shortcuts, can subtly influence our decision-making without us even realizing it.

  • 作为一位由人工智能驱动的领导者，理解人类的思维方式如何有时会误导我们至关重要。认知偏见——那些隐秘的、所谓的“思维捷径”——会在我们毫无察觉的情况下潜移默化地影响我们的决策过程。

• Avoid getting anchored by gathering tons of information before you make big decisions. Revisit your initial assumptions regularly, and adjust based on the latest data, not just your first impressions.

  • 在做出重要决定之前，不要被大量的信息所干扰。要经常回顾自己最初的判断，并根据最新的事实进行修正，而不仅仅依赖第一印象。

• It’s tough to read the label when you’re inside the box. Sometimes, you are so close to the business that you can lose sight of important information in your decision. AI’s ability to simulate potential outcomes makes it an invaluable tool for conducting premortems. It allows you to proactively identify and address potential points of failure before they happen. When it comes to postmortems, AI can help analyze successes and failures, pinpointing faulty assumptions and biases that led to less-than-stellar outcomes. This will make you a better strategic planner and decision-maker.

  • 当你在箱子里面时，很难看清标签上的信息；有时你会因为过于关注当前情况而忽略重要信息。AI能够模拟各种结果，有助于提前发现并解决问题。在事后分析中，AI能帮助你找出导致失败的原因（如错误的假设或偏见），从而让你成为更优秀的战略规划者和决策者。

• As you lead your teams into the AI era, your ability to ask great questions will be a crucial skill. It not only enhances your thinking but breaks you out of biases and assumptions that can lead you astray. In the old way of working, most knowledge workers were operational, their days filled with tasks. But as we move forward, the value of the human knowledge worker will be strategic, not operational. Our people need to focus less on doing and more on thinking, building a competitive advantage in the long term through the actions they take in the short term.

  • 随着你带领团队进入人工智能时代，提出富有洞察力的问题将成为一项至关重要的技能。这不仅有助于提升你的思维能力，还能帮助你摆脱那些可能误导你的偏见和固有观念。在过去的工作模式中，大多数知识型工作者主要从事日常操作性工作；他们的时间都被各种任务所占据。然而，随着时代的进步，知识型工作者的价值将从执行具体任务转向提供战略性的决策支持。因此，我们的团队成员需要减少对具体操作的关注，更多地专注于思考，并通过短期内的行动来为企业的长期发展创造竞争优势。

• Conversely, a great question is focused on the goals or key problems that are preventing progress. It should always move the needle closer to achieving these targets. A great question is clear and concise, and it avoids ambiguity. Everyone involved understands what’s being asked without needing extensive clarification. And it should provoke deeper thinking.

  • 一个好的问题应该聚焦于那些阻碍进步的目标或关键问题，并促使人们朝着实现这些目标的方向迈进。一个好的问题应该是清晰、简洁的，避免任何歧义；所有相关人士都能直接理解问题的含义，无需额外的解释。同时，这样的问题还应激发人们更深入的思考。

• The questions you ask yourself determine your future; they guide your focus, which guides your actions and ultimately your results. Becoming an AI-driven leader means shifting from playing at a tactical level to leading with strategic clarity. Your ability to ask the right questions is a valuable skill. It will elevate your leadership by helping you overcome biases and assumptions, drive greater growth, and unlock new levels of value as you use AI as your Thought Partner.

  • 你对自己提出的问题，决定了你的未来。这些问题会指引你的注意力方向，进而影响你的行为以及最终取得的成果。要成为一名由人工智能辅助的领导者，就必须从只关注战术层面的问题转变为能够以战略眼光来领导团队。善于提出正确的问题是一项非常重要的能力——它能够帮助你克服偏见与固有观念，促进组织的发展，并让你在将人工智能作为自己的“思维伙伴”（即帮助自己做出决策的工具）时，释放出更大的潜力与价值。