This Is Why Leaders Shouldn’t Fire Their Guys In Spite Of AI
Forget cost-savings, this one’s more important.
You may have writers, graphic artists, coders, video editors, researchers, etc. on your team. And after witnessing the mind-boggling powers of ChatGPT, you’re already asking it to write heart-warming send-off letters to the people you think have become redundant.
You’re salivating at the prospect of cost savings.
Hold your horses, because you might be hurting yourself in the long run.
Yes, you must be forgiven for being tempted, and frankly congratulated, for connecting the dots that if AI can do art in seconds…and at a fraction of the cost, why should you maintain graphic designers who sometimes play hooky or call in sick?
But let’s think about this for a second.
What you have in your hands — ChatGPT, Midjourney, Bing, etc. — is the most rapidly adopted technology in the history of mankind. ChatGPT, for example, has gained 100 million users in 60 days. That’s over 1.5 million minds being blown, every day.
So if you think you’ve discovered the biggest gun or cannon in the world and you think you don’t need your army anymore to win the war…guess what, everybody else has that same gun.
Even if you buy specialty AI services…guess what, the vendors will price those services in such a way that they can supply all of your competitors.
Sure your productivity will go up, but so will your competitors’.
Your business’ level of competitiveness has gone up, thanks to AI. But so does everybody’s.
So in the end, everybody sits on the same plane and AI has been “The Great Equalizer” — the tide that raised all boats.
This means firing your guys because of AI is not a cost-saving move a few weeks or months down the road.
It’s like firing your employees because you’ve just found out about this thing called Google Search, or Microsoft Word. You’re decapitating your own business, shedding the crucial differentiating factors of your business.
In the end, people will be your business’ differentiating factor.
Your employees determine whether you win or lose in your space.
Everybody will have the AI tools — powerful tools, like Ferrari’s of productivity. Your employees are the drivers. Who would fire their best drivers before the biggest race of their lives?
So if you have a good team right now, keep them intact. Train them hard and encourage them to explore and test the limits of AI.
Because a race unlike any other is about to start. . .
