Most teams treat AI like a shiny tool and brainstorming like a meeting. Both are wrong. In this week’s The Next Step, we dig into AI as a leadership skill—how you think, ask, and decide—not a software purchase. And we pair it with a dead-simple 3-day brainstorm cadence that actually ships original ideas.

Steal these ideas:

AI as a teammate: How to prompt like a leader (framing, constraints, counterfactuals).

Persuasion > answers: Use AI to build cases stakeholders say “yes” to—pricing, tradeoffs, risk.

Day 1–3 cadence: Why short sprints beat marathon “brainstorms” (and produce distinct concepts).

Proof over puffery: Turn fuzzy claims into testable statements