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Why AI Isn’t Working at Work

The ABC Model for leaders to thrive in the AI age

By Amit Srivastava

The AI can give you a good answer. That does not make it a good business decision.

The ABC Model helps you think clearly, question a confident answer and decide better. It will not make you right. It will help you avoid the mistakes that cost the most.

Read two chapters
Inside the book

What the book covers

  1. 01 · part oneDiagnosis

    Why the tools work and the results do not.

    Companies bought AI tools. Work got faster. Results did not improve. This part explains why.

    • Why a good answer still ends in a bad decision
  2. 02 · part twoThe ABC Model

    Three checks, in a fixed order.

    How to spot Assumptions, Biases and Complexity in an answer, and how to tell the three apart.

    • Spot the guesses, the leaning and the missing people
    • Find the same three in people, not only in machines
  3. 03 · part threeLeadership practice

    Running it on real work.

    How to run the one-minute check on everyday work, and the full five-step loop on decisions that matter. It also says what you must still decide yourself, and where this method does not help.

    • Run the three checks on everyday work
    • Run the full loop before a decision you cannot undo
    • Lead a team through AI change with clearer judgement

The coloured lines show what you will be able to do after each part.

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For teams

The book is for individual learning. Teams may need guided practice.

If several people need to use the same method on real decisions, look at the leadership sessions.