Terry O'Daniel

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119 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 21 Jul

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CISO Series Podcast · With AI, I Can Now Be Pulled in 5x More Directions at Once! · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

I can now pump out five reports instead of one report.

That's great.

But we've lost the natural pauses where we stop and evaluate.

We think about priorities.

Should I create the fifth report or is it more important to go back and fine tune the first report so it lands better?

I think that's the problem is that we're starting to, and this is, as Andy called out, this is one of the first problems any beginning manager has to deal with.

You cannot mistake activity for impact.

And I think we're seeing a massive amount of activity thanks to AI, and that's great.

But where does it land?

What does it actually get us?

Does it make our teams look more productive on paper than we're actually producing the outputs that we need to and we're doing it sustainably?

I think that's true.

And I think we talked a little bit about burnout too.

And I think burnout isn't just the amount of activity you put in.

It's not just the hours worked.

It's the amount of cognitive load that's like you're sitting with as a baseline that's been unresolved.

I think the unfortunate reality is that

In most organizations, leadership isn't overly invested in seeing it through to completion.

Yes, I think it is something of a checkbox exercise.

And I think that I've been in environments where leadership says the right things,

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