How can AI better empower you and your team?
Empower yourself and your people by making AI work for you, without headcount changes or disruption.
The Leadership Playbook, Revisited
by Keryn Gold, PhD, MBA
Why it matters
Claiming an AI strategy is common now. Running on one is a different thing, and the gap isn’t skill or budget.
It’s that this never had an owner. Nothing in a normal review process was built to catch it, so it sits in the space between IT, legal, and the people already using the tools without telling anyone.
This is the second edition, rewritten 18 months after the first shipped because that much changed. It covers the framework, the meetings, the single source of truth, and the setup that runs it. No headcount changes. No disruption.
What if you had actionable answers to your most pressing questions?
Am I going to get replaced?
What changes, what doesn’t, and the habits to build this month so you stay the one making the call.
Where do I even start?
The first change to make on Monday, and what to leave alone until that one works.
How do I get my week back?
Which meetings to end first, what replaces them, and how to make sure nothing gets lost in the swap.
How do I get my team on board?
The words to use, the order to use them in, and how to know when to kill a pilot instead of defending it.
Pick how you want to read it
Every format is an instant download, yours to keep, and you can re-download it any time.
What’s inside
Every chapter opens with the decision it helps you make, and closes with a playbook you can forward to your team without explaining it.
The chapters
- How much can actually change in 18 months?
- The leadership revolution has begun, and how to stay ahead of the curve
- The leadership framework: two lists, six lines
- The AI-powered productivity revolution, including the 15-minute rule
- Data unleashed: building a single source of truth
- Your actual setup: surfaces, skills and governance
- The one-person visibility engine
How each chapter is built
- You’ll know in 10 seconds. Every chapter opens with the decision it helps you make, so you can skip the ones that aren’t yours.
- A number, not an adjective. Why it matters arrives with a figure you can check and a source you can go read.
- Something you can actually run. Every step names who owns it and roughly what it takes, so it lands on a calendar instead of a reading list.
- Send it without explaining it. The playbook stands alone. Forward it and the rest of the book isn’t needed.
Whether this is your book
It’s written for someone who has to decide something this quarter, not for someone studying the topic.
It may help if
- Your people are already using AI tools and nobody has written down the rules
- Your calendar only ever grows
- Three teams report three different numbers for the same thing
- You want the win without a reorg, a new budget line, or a consultant living in your office
It’s the wrong book if
- You’re looking for a case to cut headcount, which this explicitly isn’t
- You want model architecture rather than management decisions
- You’d rather wait until the landscape settles down
- You want a vendor shortlist instead of a way to evaluate one
Who wrote this
Keryn Gold, PhD, MBA. 15+ years creating win-wins with 10x+ ROI, from startups to the Fortune 500. CEO, COO, and VC/PE M&A operator.
She built the analytics and data science centers of excellence at the largest healthcare organizations, and led data science, BI and strategy teams at a top FAANG company. PhD in Biomedical Sciences and Statistical Genetics from Washington University in St. Louis, where she started college at 14 and graduated summa cum laude at 17.
Empowering others through deep diligence and crafting solutions with actionable Day 1 ROI. Creating win-wins is the throughline.
Questions people ask before they buy
I read the first edition. Is this different enough to buy again?
Is this a case for replacing people with AI?
The book recommends specific tools. Do you earn anything on those?
Do I need a technical team to use any of this?
What files do I actually get?
If you could fix one thing about how your team works, what would it be?
Each chapter ends with a playbook your team can run.
