Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

Anywhere in the world, if you want to be an effective leader, you have to be seen as authentic by others.

Now, there's no way to know whether that perception that other people have of you is accurate or not.

But what's interesting, if you look at the research, is that the people who are seen as authentic

actually are really good at impression management.

They have high emotional intelligence, they know how to self edit.

And most most important of all, they know where the right to be themselves ends, and their obligation to others begins.

And what makes you trust somebody, whether they're a leader, a coworker, or I would even say a spouse, is not whether they are brutally honest, but whether they are safe, reliable, and predictable.

In the end, we have to read between the lines and we have to

care about others, and then you still have a lot of leeway and room to be you.

And you're always going to be you and not other people.

But to demonstrate that you have empathy and you care about others and have the capacity to self-edit in a way that helps the team and the organization is a fundamental accolade or leadership skill.

Yeah, God, there's so much going on.

And you know, I always feel like uncomfortable trying to predict what comes next.

Most of the times our predictions are off.

But if time stopped now, and AI development and technological development stopped,

we would still need quite a while to kind of absorb it and make sense of it.

Like, let's start with very, very concrete and simple examples.

So we may have some human listeners, but probably a lot of people are feeding this podcast to their large language model, the Gen-AI model, and getting a summary of it, right?

And, you know,

and that might be fed into another ai and also you know we could have made this podcast not being ourselves but having our agents or a deep fakes or a digital clones doing it i think ai is incredible you know to some degree