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by Jeremy Utley & Henrik Werdelin
Beyond the Prompt dives deep into the world of AI and its expanding impact on business and daily work. Hosted by Jeremy Utley of Stanford's d.school, alongside Henrik Werdelin, an entrepreneur known for starting BarkBox, prehype and other startups, each episode features conversations with innovators and leaders to uncover pragmatic stories of how organizations leverage AI to accelerate success. Learn creative strategies and actionable tactics you can apply right away as AI capabilities advance exponentially.
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The conversation explores why AI adoption in organizations stalls despite its potential, arguing that the core issue isn’t technical but psychological: a lack of psychological safety and widespread corporate numbing that prevents people from engaging authentically with change. The real bottleneck is human, not technological.
Jim VandeHei, CEO of Axios, believes AI will soon grant everyone Einstein-level intelligence across any topic, but the real challenge lies not in the technology itself, but in organizational imagination and leadership. He argues that companies must proactively adapt by automating repetitive tasks, empowering employees through AI enablement, and reimagining their business models for a future where content is consumed via LLMs and social platforms.
Bryce Chalamel, now head of AI strategy and adoption at OpenAI, argues that AI is transforming knowledge workers into intelligence workers by elevating the cognitive surface of work—comparable to the shift from writing to printing. The real challenge isn’t the technology, but the human mindset: trust must be earned, not dictated, and success hinges on emotional readiness, not just technical capability.
At Logitech, AI adoption has evolved from isolated experiments to a deeply embedded cultural and operational shift, driven by workflow integration, leadership modeling, and tools like the Build Advisor and Board Advisor gems that democratize access and learning. The real breakthrough isn’t just in creation, but in cultivating disciplined deletion—letting go of outdated processes to make space for innovation.
The core challenge facing modern organizations is balancing exploitation of existing successful models with exploration of new innovations, especially in the age of AI. While many companies focus on efficiency (exploitation), long-term survival requires deliberate investment in exploration, cultural adaptability, and structural separation of new ventures — as exemplified by Amazon and Microsoft’s transformations. The average life expectancy of an S&P 500 company is now projected to drop to just 12 years, signaling a systemic failure in organizational adaptability. True resilience comes not from predicting the future but from designing systems that can discover it through experimentation, scaling, and cultural reinforcement of risk-taking.
In a candid and introspective conversation, author Dan Pink shares how he uses AI as a brutally honest advisor to uncover personal blind spots, confront the risk of irrelevance, and strengthen self-awareness. Joined by hosts Jeremy Utley and Henrik Werdelin, the discussion expands into intellectual humility, the nature of agency, and the importance of taste in an AI-driven world where execution is easy but discernment is scarce.
Geoff Woods, author of The AI-Driven Leader, returns to discuss how leaders must personally engage with AI to lead effectively, emphasizing that AI adoption is not about tools but about elevating human thinking and strategy. The conversation centers on the gap between leaders who delegate AI initiatives and those who embody them, with a focus on using AI as a thought partner to unlock deeper insight, alignment, and innovation.
Christian Catalini, a tech founder and former academic, discusses his recent paper on the economic implications of approaching artificial general intelligence (AGI), arguing that while intelligence is becoming commodified and cheap, the critical bottleneck for humans will be verification—the ability to judge whether AI-generated outputs meet a standard of quality, accuracy, or intent. He emphasizes that this shift demands individuals and organizations to rethink their roles, not as producers of intelligence, but as verifiers, directors, and orchestrators of AI systems.
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Beyond the Prompt dives deep into the world of AI and its expanding impact on business and daily work. Hosted by Jeremy Utley of Stanford's d.school, alongside Henrik Werdelin, an entrepreneur known for starting BarkBox, prehype and other startups, each episode features conversations with innovators and leaders to uncover pragmatic stories of how organizations leverage AI to accelerate success. Learn creative strategies and actionable tactics you can apply right away as AI capabilities advance exponentially.
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