In this episode of Better @ What You Do, host Ben Olmos brings back three former guests of DissedMedia: A Startup Story to work through a question that has seemingly crept up on most operators in recent weeks, which is what remains worth measuring once somebody else holds the scorecard. The conversation opens with a recent Omni Calculator survey in which 40% of employees said managers who use AI come across as less competent and 36% said they trust those managers' judgment less, with Gen Z offering the harshest read of all. Stephanie Sylvestre separates what she calls lazy AI from the kind that gets real work done, while Rich Ashton argues that communication may be the most powerful tool a leader has, and that handing it to a machine can give some of that leadership away. Joshua Griffin adds the view from a growing agency, where a phone call between two people outperformed every automated outreach campaign his team had tried.

From there the panel turns to social media, where LinkedIn feeds have begun to read like the same post written fifteen times and where YouTube's changes to how a view gets counted may leave creators with bigger numbers that say less. Views and subscriber counts can look impressive on a channel page; however, the panel keeps returning to whether any of it leads to a sale, a relationship, or a conversation worth having. The final stretch centers upon what draws listeners to a podcast, the host or the guest, before taking an unplanned and candid turn into women in leadership and the idea that hiring decisions should rest on the knowledge, skills, and abilities a person brings to the job.

Connect with the guests

Stephanie Sylvestre, CEO of Avatar Buddy: https://avatarbuddy.ai | https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-a-sylvestre

Rich Ashton, Owner of Growing Your Own and author of Growing Your Own: https://growingyourown.net

Joshua Griffin, Co-Founder of Intrinzi: https://www.intrinzi.com | https://www.joshgriffin.co.uk

About the host

Ben Olmos is the founder of DissedMedia and the host of Better at What You Do and DissedMedia: A Startup Story. Find more episodes and everything else DissedMedia is working on at https://dissedmedia.com, with guest booking powered by https://rostr.studio and more from Ben at https://benolmos.com.