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Your AI Survival Guide
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Your AI Survival Guide

by Sol Rashidi
April 2024
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
224 pages
5h 43m
English
Wiley
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CHAPTER 3Bend the Rules, Don't Break the Spirit

In Chapter 1, we touched upon the journey of an underdog, consistently underestimated yet cheerfully resilient. This helped me grow into the rogue executive, pushing boundaries to help companies transform. To say I was constantly faced with roadblocks is an understatement. Yet with a keen eye for what the future could hold, I stood the course and grounded myself with the belief that what I was doing was in the best interest of the company, and this helped me push past the naysayers, the Karens, and the Richards of the corporate world, and boy were there a ton of them.

In this chapter, we'll discuss the five key principles I've learned over the course of my career. This is part of your preparation before we get into the meat of things. They are:

  • Ask “why?” Make sure you know why you want to do this.
  • Develop your AI strategy. We start thinking through your strategy.
  • Think big, start small, scale quickly. This is a framework for making sure you take a “crawl, walk, run” approach to your AI journey.
  • Choose your technology partner. Like with anything else in life, who you chose as your partner in this journey can influence your experience.
  • Pace yourself. I share with you how to forecast your project and preserve your well-being.

In the realm of effective leadership, we're often confronted with the inevitable business decision of how to strike balance and adhere to established rules, while calling out when traditional methods and ...

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