The Pre-Meeting Brief: How Next-Gen Leaders Use AI Without Losing the Room
Most organisations don’t have an AI problem. They have a meeting problem — and AI makes it obvious. Status updates still eat the hour. Decisions still slip to “next week.” The people with judgment arrive under-briefed, while the people with slides arrive over-prepared. Next-gen leadership isn’t about putting a chatbot in every chat. It’s about redesigning how decisions get ready before humans walk into the room. What changes Instead of opening a meeting with “quick updates,” open with a one-page AI-assisted brief: The decision — one sentence: what must we choose today? Options — 2–3 real alternatives (not a false binary). Risks & trade-offs — what we gain / lose with each. Evidence — the 3–5 facts that matter (with sources or owners). The ask — decide, defer (with a named owner + date), or escalate. Humans still decide. AI does the prep work that used to steal the first 40 minutes. A Tuesday-morning way to run it Before: Someone owns the brief. AI drafts from notes, ...