{"podcast":{"title":"Leadership Today - Practical Tips For Leaders","slug":"leadership-today-practical-tips-for-leaders-572049","podcast_index_feed_id":572049,"rss_url":"https://rss.libsyn.com/shows/129287/destinations/781896.xml","website_url":"https://leadership.today/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/a/6/7/8/a678d18a0f990d2388c4a68c3ddbc4f2/Practical_tips_for_leaders.jpg","author":"Andrew Beveridge","episode_count":305,"summary":"Practical tips for leaders. Hosted by psychologist and founder of Leadership Today - Andrew Beveridge. Leadership Today is a weekly leadership podcast for managers, team leaders and executives who want practical, evidence-based leadership advice. Hosted by psychologist Andrew Beveridge, each episode translates the latest leadership and organisational psychology research into simple strategies you can use immediately. Discover practical tips on leadership, management, coaching, emotional intelligence, difficult conversations, delegation, employee motivation, psychological safety, team effectiveness, change leadership and workplace performance. Go to www.leadership.today for episodes and more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T08:18:51.819028+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leadership-today-practical-tips-for-leaders-572049"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 228 - How To Get The Best From AI Without Falling Off The Edge","slug":"episode-228-how-to-get-the-best-from-ai-without-falling-off-the-edge","published_at":"2026-06-19T19:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leadership-today-practical-tips-for-leaders-572049/episode-228-how-to-get-the-best-from-ai-without-falling-off-the-edge","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leadership-today-practical-tips-for-leaders-572049","url":"https://leadershiptoday.libsyn.com/episode-228-how-to-get-the-best-from-ai-without-falling-off-the-edge","audio_url":"https://op3.dev/e/traffic.libsyn.com/clean/secure/leadershiptoday/Leadership_Today_-_Episode_228.mp3?dest-id=781896","summary":"Episode 228 - How To Get The Best From AI Without Falling Off The Edge Summary AI can be incredibly helpful, but it's not always right. Learn about the \"jagged frontier\" of AI capability and why the most effective leaders know when to rely on AI and when human judgement remains essential. Discover practical ways to get the benefits of AI without falling into its traps. Transcript Hello and welcome to episode 228 of the Leadership Today podcast, where each week we share practical tips to improve your leadership. In this episode we explore the so-called \"jagged frontier\" of Artificial Intelligence - where we fail to apply human judgement and pay the price. If you've been using AI for a while, you've probably had two very different experiences. Sometimes it feels almost magical. It helps you generate ideas, summarise information, improve your writing, and solve problems faster than you thought possible. Then there are those other moments. The answer sounds convincing, looks professional, and is completely wrong. Understanding why that happens is becoming one of the most important leadership skills of our time. A study involving more than 750 consultants at Boston Consulting Group explored the impact of using GPT-4 on a range of consulting tasks. The results were impressive. People completed more work, worked faster, and generally produced higher-quality outputs when using AI. But the researchers uncovered something equally important. When participants used AI on tasks that were beyond the technology's capabilities, their performance actually became worse. The AI didn't simply fail to help. It often led people towards the wrong answer. The researchers described this as the \"jagged frontier\" of AI. Some tasks sit comfortably within AI's capabilities and the benefits can be…","meta_description":"Episode 228 - How To Get The Best From AI Without Falling Off The Edge Summary AI can be incredibly helpful, but it's not always right. Learn about the \"j…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":242,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/leadership-today-practical-tips-for-leaders-572049/episodes/episode-228-how-to-get-the-best-from-ai-without-falling-off-the-edge/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leadership-today-practical-tips-for-leaders-572049/episode-228-how-to-get-the-best-from-ai-without-falling-off-the-edge.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}