This week, Simon Sinek said something that gave me hope.
“AI can do many things, but it can’t struggle for us. In a world of accelerating tech, it’s not certainty that makes great leaders. It’s the willingness to wrestle with uncertainty, sit in the discomfort, and still show up.”
Lately, leaders have been asking the real question: “How do I lead when I don’t know where the world is going – or I do, and it terrifies me?”
Because the map doesn’t make sense anymore. Technology is changing how we work, how we measure value, how we make decisions and no one handed us a new guidebook.
What do you do when the majority of your company could be replaced in the next year, and the board is still looking to you for answers? What do you say to your team when you’re uncertain yourself?
Perhaps you stop performing certainty and you start leading from something deeper – instinct, honesty, presence.
Leaders everywhere are trying to pivot in their sense of usefulness in a system being rewritten in real time.
Because when AI writes the updates you used to obsess over, when dashboards automate the insights you used to deliver…it’s not just your tasks that change, but it’s your identity.
Who are you if you’re not the sharpest voice in the room? What happens when the person you spent 20 years becoming doesn’t feel necessary anymore?
Maybe this isn’t a story of crisis, but it’s a story of courage. The courage to say: “I don’t know.” To take off the mask and to lead anyway.
The more tech advances, the more we need to focus on the skills that AI can’t replace: discernment, empathy and humanity. No one can take that from you.
What if value didn’t mean being indispensable? What if leadership meant showing your fear and your hope?
Perhaps this is a return, a rewilding and a deep breath before something different.
I have to believe there’s something waiting on the other side that’s quieter and more human.
Here’s to new beginnings, building the foundation and braving the storm.
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In your corner,
Kate
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