{"podcast":{"title":"Lead the Team (Top 2% of Podcasts)","slug":"lead-the-team-top-2-of-podcasts-1064768","podcast_index_feed_id":1064768,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/leadtheteam/","website_url":"HTTPS://benfanning.com/blog","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/10af0b95-04e6-42cc-b03d-73690ea3bb8a/QKJ4Hxs4kaKpd554m1ArvK6B.jpg","author":"Ben Fanning","episode_count":465,"summary":"Real CEOs. Real Stories. Hosted by Ben Fanning—2025 Gold Stevie Award winner for Best Business Podcast and ranked in the Top 2% globally—Lead the Team draws on over 600 CEO interviews to take you inside the minds of leaders from brands like Honeywell, HP, IBM, Dunkin’, and L’Oréal. In each episode, you’ll hear raw, unfiltered stories of leading through rapid growth, high-stakes decisions, and make-or-break moments—plus the CEO-tested tools and strategies they use to build high-performing teams. From turning around billion-dollar brands to sparking innovation at scale, these leaders share lessons you can put into action right now to lead your own team better. Subscribe now. ------------- https://www.benfanning.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/benfanning/","last_synced_at":"2026-07-23T04:21:29.253817+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lead-the-team-top-2-of-podcasts-1064768"},"episode":{"title":"The AI Leadership Choice Every Leader Must Make (CEO Abhijit Mitra, Outreach)","slug":"the-ai-leadership-choice-every-leader-must-make-ceo-abhijit-mitra-outreach","published_at":"2026-03-22T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lead-the-team-top-2-of-podcasts-1064768/the-ai-leadership-choice-every-leader-must-make-ceo-abhijit-mitra-outreach","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lead-the-team-top-2-of-podcasts-1064768","url":"http://www.benfanning.com/theceosessions/abhijit","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/63cc1e57-a4e5-4175-8d38-3d7dd67066b0.mp3","summary":"My AI just joined the meeting... I expected Abhijit Mitra, CEO of Outreach, a multi billion-dollar AI company, to tell me about their legendary tools and automation. Instead, he it took a different direction. When he’s in a meeting… his AI agents actually join the meeting and coach him in real time. Not summarize it later. Not send notes afterward. They’re in the meeting, helping him think, respond, and prepare. That’s when the real insight hit. Myself and most leaders today are experimenting with AI tools. But we aren't fully redesigning how our teams operate around AI. And Abhijit made something very clear: “It has to be a top-down initiative… this cannot be delegated downwards.” Boom! Because if that’s true, AI isn’t really a technology shift. It’s really a leadership shift. The leaders that win this era won’t just deploy better AI. They’ll have leaders willing to own the operating model change that comes with it. So consider... How many of us are treating AI like a project… when it might actually be the most important leadership decision we make this decade? ----- Connect with the Host, #1 bestselling author Ben Fanning Speaking and Training inquires Subscribe to my Youtube channel LinkedIn Instagram Twitter","meta_description":"My AI just joined the meeting... I expected Abhijit Mitra, CEO of Outreach, a multi billion-dollar AI company, to tell me about their legendary tools and…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2343,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lead-the-team-top-2-of-podcasts-1064768/episodes/the-ai-leadership-choice-every-leader-must-make-ceo-abhijit-mitra-outreach/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lead-the-team-top-2-of-podcasts-1064768/the-ai-leadership-choice-every-leader-must-make-ceo-abhijit-mitra-outreach.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}