SightShift with Chris McAlister

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  SightShift with Chris McAlister

  AI Is Killing the Career Path. 3 Things to Tell Your Team

  Aug 13, 202630 min

  The career path you were sold is on life support. AI is taking the entry level reps that used to build judgment, and the leaders caught in the middle are the ones who have to answer for it. This one is an audible. A listener wrote in after the last episode and pushed back on Dr. Chris McAlister: if wisdom takes time, experience, and scars, how does a generation get those reps when AI can already do the work? Chris and co-host Mark Stanifer set the notes aside and stay in that tension. Why yesterday's skills go the way of farming. Why the one rep that still matters is noticing your own thinking. Where Chris disagrees with Seth Godin about how few people you can get away with. And the simple one, two, three a leader can bring to their team this week, without pretending to have the answers. Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:42 The book, and where we are in the series 1:50 A listener calls a curveball 3:15 You cannot get wisdom without the reps 4:00 His daughter, and the AI that pushes back 6:27 The rep that still matters: noticing your own thinking 7:44 My farming wisdom is worthless now 11:31 The harder question: the team looking to you 17:40 The career, the path, the degree: there is just no way 18:27 AI music, Seth Godin, and the wrong question 20:26 Chris pushes back: efficiency is part of the job 22:06 What a great institution is actually for 23:18 Marketing 101 to CMO: the ladder is gone 24:05 The one, two, three to tell your team 28:40 Send us your question Have a question you want Chris to take on? Send it to connect@sightshift.com or leave it in the YouTube comments. Take the Identity Fear Quotient® (IFQ®), four questions in about 15 minutes, to see the fear that quietly drives how you show up under pressure: https://www.taketheifq.com Get into the SightShift ecosystem at https://www.sightshift.com Find the book, The 3% Shift: The Human Edge in the Age of AI, at https://www.threepercentshift.com

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  AI Will Make Most Leaders Dumber. Wisdom Is the 3% It Can’t Replace

  Jul 16, 202634 min

  AI will not make you a better leader. For most people it will make them dumber, by quietly taking over the one thing that made them worth following in the first place. Dr. Chris McAlister and co-host Mark Stanifer get into the human capacity AI can never replace: phronesis, the hard fought wisdom Aristotle called the chief virtue. A story about an 18 year old, a church in open revolt, and the prompt that would have weaponized him. Why the first move AI hands you is almost always the wrong one. And the one question worth sitting with before you touch the keyboard: are you leading for impact, or for validation? Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:41 The book is live 4:37 An 18-year-old, a church in revolt, one decision 8:17 The twist: what if he had asked ChatGPT? 10:37 AI as amplifier: it makes your first move worse 12:25 Phronesis: the wisdom Aristotle prized most 17:01 IBM 96 percent, and the 4 percent only wisdom can handle 18:24 Outsource your thinking and AI makes you dumber 22:39 Why Chris built his AI to slow down 24:38 Impact or validation? The most intimate question 28:23 The volunteer he hired too fast, then had to fire 30:54 Hard fought for wisdom: scars and receipts 32:15 Double down on being human (next time, the why) Take the Identity Fear Quotient® (IFQ®), four questions in about 15 minutes, to see the fear that quietly drives how you show up under pressure: www.taketheifq.com Get into the SightShift ecosystem at www.sightshift.com Find the new book, The 3% Shift: The Human Edge in the Age of AI, at www.threepercentshift.com

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  Lunch with Chris: The 3% AI Can’t Replace

  Jul 9, 202626 min

  You can replace your human assistant with AI. What you can’t replace is the human who knows where to draw the line. Chris opens with his own swap — and a book that changes the calculus. Chris McAlister goes live every Wednesday at lunch. This week: the launch of ‘The 3% Shift: The Human Edge in the Age of AI’ — and the urgent framework it delivers. AI will handle 97% of the doing. The 3% it can never touch is the human edge: the capacity to imagine what isn’t yet real, discern what’s wise, and build relationships that last. IBM, Standard Chartered, Meta — the headlines are already writing this story. Chris gives you the model to stay on the right side of it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 WHAT YOU’LL LEARN 🔍 How Chris replaced his human assistant with an AI chief of staff in March — and what the experiment revealed about where the human work actually lives ⚡ The IBM case: AI handled 94% of HR requests and hit a wall on the 6% requiring human judgment — and why the market is now “repricing the 3%” 🌳 Real stories of AI-first leadership going wrong: the Standard Chartered CEO’s “lower value human capital” moment, Meta’s contradictory town hall, and what insecurity looks like in the age of agents 💡 The three-part model from ‘The 3% Shift’: Imagine (what is unseen), Discern (what is wise), Build (what lasts) — and what each piece means when AI owns the other 97% 🔧 The email footer story: Chris’s AI drafted something technically right but tonally wrong — how he applied discernment to fix it, and why taste and judgment are the job that doesn’t go away 🧭 Why building what lasts always means relationships — “knowledge puffs up, love builds up” — and the risk that AI designed to connect starts to feel more real than your actual people ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 — Intro: The Biggest Change Chris Has Made in 27 Years 01:51 — Welcome to Lunch with Chris / Noon Wednesdays on YouTube 02:43 — Next Week Preview: Showing You My AI Setup 04:27 — Drum Roll: The Book Is Out 05:19 — The Title: The 3% Shift: The Human Edge in the Age of AI 05:34 — IBM Case Study: AI Handled 94%, Couldn’t Handle the 6% 07:47 — Standard Chartered CEO: “AI Is Replacing Lower Value Human Capital” 08:58 — Meta Town Hall: Two Leaders Who Couldn’t Say “We Don’t Know Yet” 09:22 — The Right Posture: Find Where the Human Begins and Ends 11:52 — 97% Goes to AI — The 3% Is Your Human Edge 14:49 — The Model: Imagine, Discern, Build 15:52 — Discern What Is Wise: Taste, Judgment, and AI That Gets the Wrong Tone 16:50 — Story: The Email Footer That Made Chris Too Self-Important 18:39 — How Your Discernment Makes the AI Smarter Over Time 20:35 — Build What Lasts — The Work AI Cannot Do 21:31 — “Knowledge Puffs Up. Love Builds Up.” 22:54 — The Risk: When Your AI Feels More Real Than Your People 24:26 — Get the Book: threepercentshift.com (Hardback, Paperback, Kindle) 25:20 — Sign-Off: “Stay at the Human Edge. Live That 3% Shift.” ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 CONNECT WITH SIGHTSHIFT® AI won’t rescue you from the leadership work. Know what the 3% is — and own it. 👉 Order The 3% Shift: The Human Edge in the Age of AI (Dr. Chris McAlister): https://threepercentshift.com?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=3-percent-shift-book&utm_content=lwc-3pct-ai-cant-replace&utm_term=book-3-percent-shift 👉 Take the IFQ® (Identity Fear Quotient®, 15 min) — discover the leadership mistake you make under stress: https://www.taketheifq.com?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=youtube-organic&utm_content=lwc-3pct-ai-cant-replace&utm_term=ifq 👉 Take the free Validation Check™ (3 min) — diagnose whether you’re leading for impact or validation: https://thevalidationcheck.com?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=youtube-organic&utm_content=lwc-3pct-ai-cant-replace&utm_term=validation-check 👉 Learn more at SightShift.com: https://www.sightshift.com?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=youtube-organic&utm_content=lwc-3pct-ai-cant-replace ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 SUBSCRIBE for Lunch with Chris every Wednesday: https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisMcAlister?sub_confirmation=1 Chris McAlister is the founder of SightShift® and the author of The 3% Shift: The Human Edge in the Age of AI. SightShift® develops leaders who develop leaders, so you can build a culture that changes lives. #LunchWithChris #SightShift #3PercentShift #HumanEdge #AILeadership #BookLaunch #LeadershipDevelopment #IdentityFearQuotient #ExecutiveCoaching #FutureOfWork

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  Lunch with Chris: AI Rescue Is Not a Plan

  Jul 8, 202616 min

  Your AI won't rescue you. It reveals you. Chris opens with a personal note, real stories of AI-obsessed bosses, and the question that defines your career: where does AI end and you begin? Chris McAlister goes live every Wednesday at lunch. This week, with The 3% Shift hitting shelves in six days: the personal letter he wrote to his email list about why the ground is moving under leaders, the real-world examples from the "bosses obsessed with AI are making everyone miserable" article, and the thesis the book is built on. New technology, same human heart. The tool that promises to change everything always runs into the same unchanged thing inside us. AI won't rescue you from the leadership work. It will show you exactly what leadership work you've been dodging. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN 🔍 The personal note Chris wrote to his email list — why he says “the ground is moving” faster than most leaders realize, and what’s on the other end of it ⚡ Why bosses who’ve made AI the final authority on every decision are creating paralysis, churn, and fear — and the two leadership jobs no model can do for you 🌳 Real-world examples: the attorney boss who outsourced all pre-meeting prep to ChatGPT, the CEO who trusted AI over his field reps, and what they reveal about your own leadership gaps 💡 The case for struggle — why being lost, overwhelmed, and in mess with people is the only way the skills form that make a great leader 🔧 Zuckerberg, Altman, and what the leaders building at the frontier of AI are seeing that the rest of us aren’t 🧭 The game to win: knowing where AI ends and you begin — and why that distinction determines the contribution only you can make as a human ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 — Personal Note: “The Ground Is Moving” — Cold Open 03:18 — Welcome to Lunch with Chris / Why We’re Talking About AI 04:23 — “The Topic Is AI” — Three Ways It Might Land for You 05:46 — Core Thesis: AI Won’t Rescue You — It Reveals You 06:38 — The Article: “Bosses Obsessed with AI Are Making Everyone Miserable” 07:16 — The Final Authority Problem: Paralysis, Churn, Fear 07:57 — Examples: When Leaders Stop Listening to Humans 08:48 — The Boss Who Let ChatGPT Pivot the Whole Company 09:25 — The Case for Struggle: Leadership Skills You Can’t Skip 10:19 — The Other Side: Why This Technology Is Mind-Blowing 10:31 — Zuckerberg, Altman, and What the Builders at the Frontier Are Seeing 11:36 — “You’re Seeing the Free Stupid Version” 11:54 — “This Is Tectonic” — What 25 Years of Building Leaders Tells Him 12:42 — How Shifts Happen: When a Better Thing Arrives, the Market Builds Around It 13:24 — The Game to Win: Know Where AI Ends and You Begin 13:46 — “A Majority of Work Is Performative Empty Theater” 14:13 — The Washing Machine Has Been Invented — What Will You Do with the Time? 14:49 — What to Do Now: Find Your Edge / Book Launches July 7 15:41 — Final Challenge: Get Lost, Get Overwhelmed, Find the Mess ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 CONNECT WITH SIGHTSHIFT® AI reveals the leadership work you’ve been doing — and the work you’ve been avoiding. Know who you are before the tools do. 👉 Order The 3% Shift: The Human Edge in the Age of AI (Dr. Chris McAlister): https://threepercentshift.com?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=3-percent-shift-book&utm_content=lwc-ai-rescue-not-plan&utm_term=book-3-percent-shift 👉 Take the IFQ® (Identity Fear Quotient®, 15 min) — discover the leadership mistake you make under stress: https://www.taketheifq.com?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=youtube-organic&utm_content=lwc-ai-rescue-not-plan&utm_term=ifq 👉 Take the free Validation Check™ (3 min) — diagnose whether you’re leading for impact or validation: https://thevalidationcheck.com?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=youtube-organic&utm_content=lwc-ai-rescue-not-plan&utm_term=validation-check 👉 Learn more at SightShift.com: https://www.sightshift.com?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=youtube-organic&utm_content=lwc-ai-rescue-not-plan ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 SUBSCRIBE for Lunch with Chris every Wednesday: https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisMcAlister?sub_confirmation=1 Chris McAlister is the founder of SightShift® and the author of The 3% Shift: The Human Edge in the Age of AI. SightShift® develops leaders who develop leaders, so you can build a culture that changes lives. #LunchWithChris #SightShift #AILeadership #3PercentShift #HumanEdge #AIAndLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment #IdentityFearQuotient #ExecutiveCoaching #FutureOfWork

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  Episode #261

  If AI Can Do Your Work, What Are You For as a Leader?

  Jun 25, 202649 min

  If AI can do your work, what are you actually for? That is the question every knowledge worker is starting to feel, and this episode on AI and leadership sits right inside it. Dr. Chris McAlister and co-host Mark dig into the first of three human capacities AI can never replace: imagination. Not wishful thinking, but seeing something in your mind before it is real. That is vision, the necessary function of leadership. Chris tells the story of pulling into his garage in February, watching AI initiate, synthesize, and execute, and sitting with the question the tool forced on him: if it can do this, what am I for? He calls it a haunting moment, and what settled in was a conviction that what a human really does matters more than ever. It is the same gut question a fourth-generation horseshoer faced when the car arrived, or a division-one athlete feels when the knee gives out. Psychologists call it identity foreclosure, and it is coming for everyone who works at a computer. The deeper anchor is a Greek word: Gnosko. Gnosko is experiential knowing, the kind you possess and stand on no matter what the day brings. The other word for knowing is techne. Techne is informational knowing, the manual, the facts, the pattern. AI can techne you, mimic you, pattern-match you across every transcript and recording until it can sound like a great friend. It can never gnosko you. It will never experientially know who you are. That is why imagination stays human. You hold the vision. The tool extends it, imagining a hundred ways forward, but only inside the vision you give it. Chris and Mark name the real danger too. People will outsource the seeing and go to the tool for validation, training it to bolster the very things they feel most threatened about, remaking it in the image of their insecurity. More AI agents are online than people now. AI companion apps have passed dating apps because the machine tells you what you want to hear. The old Babel invitation still stands: do not reach for the bricks to build the tower, reach for God, and lean into a gnosko with him you have never had before. The leaders who answer what am I for from a secure identity are the 3% who walk everyone else into the future that is now. Chapters 0:00 Intro 1:13 If AI can do this, what am I for? 6:50 The paradox: easier work, harder humans 11:58 The first capacity AI can't replace: imagination 23:46 Gnosko vs. techne: knowing vs. knowing about 32:44 AI can mimic you. It can't know you. 39:55 Don't reach for the bricks (the Babel turn) 45:29 Identity foreclosure, and what's next Next episode goes to the second human capacity, discernment, the Greek phronesis. Take the Identity Fear Quotient® (IFQ®), four questions in about 15 minutes, to see the fear that drives how you show up under pressure, and where you might reach for a tool to validate it: www.taketheifq.com Get into the SightShift ecosystem at www.sightshift.com Find the forthcoming book, The 3% Shift: The Human Edge in the Age of AI, at www.threepercentshift.com

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