I had someone tell me recently that AI gave them a stupid answer.
I said, as politely as I could: “With all due respect, if you’re not getting what you need, there’s only one part of that equation that’s stupid.”
I wasn’t popular for about 10 minutes. Then we had a good laugh.
The reality is that if you don’t tell it who it is, it defaults to its own ranking of sources. Reddit. Wikipedia. LinkedIn. Forbes.
The comment section, an encyclopedia for the masses, a self-promotional bunch of noise, and a pay-to-play magazine.
If that’s not where you want to get your information from, you have to tell it where to go.
The quality of your prompt determines the quality of your output. And as AI gets more capable, as we move into agentic workflows where it’s doing 6 tasks before you check it, the prompt becomes more important. Not less.
Your number one skill to develop as a senior leader right now is the ability to frame the inquiry. Call it context engineering, prompt engineering, framing. Doesn’t matter what you call it. How do you ask the right question so the right answer comes back?
The good news is this is a learnable skill, and the fastest way to build it is to just start using it on things that actually matter to you.
We put together 5 high-powered prompts you can use today, each one built around a real business outcome. The exact framing that gets AI working like the thinking partner it’s supposed to be.
You can download it here: https://hubs.ly/Q04fjH_z0
