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Stop Treating AI Like a Project | Rachel Woods

7 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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Rachel Woods argues that AI shouldn't be treated as a one-off project but as an ongoing capability. Leaders need to understand it well enough to set direction and priorities, even without technical expertise. Adopting AI is easier than most think and can scale a leader's impact.

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A lot of people will kind of treat AI implementation like a project, right? Where you think about, I want a roadmap and I want a budget and I want to have these projects done, right? It's really more of a way of operating. And so you want to think about like a capability, you want to learn it, and that's going to help you, especially as a leader, know where to take your organization and what to invest in. I see a lot of leaders who are like, you know what, I may not have dug into AI, I might have even potentially some fear, or it's too technical, or these different things. As a leader, you have to be able to be in the weeds enough to then be able to be like, "Cool, here's the direction we're going." You don't need to be the best playbook owner on your team. People are always surprised at how actually easy it is. Imagine this is easier than you think. Yeah. Now you have a totally new way to scale yourself and you have a new ceiling.