Edwin Jansen
Montgomery Station Press
9 March 2027
128
eBook - PDF
Non-Fiction
ARC via Edelweiss
You have access to a brilliant thinking partner. Chances are, you’re asking it to write emails.
You’re bringing AI in too late. You ask it to build the deck after you’ve chosen the story, create the proposal after the strategy is set, or help prepare for an important conversation after you’ve already decided what to say.
By then, AI can improve the output, but it has missed the chance to help you improve the outcome.
That’s the limitation of using AI tactically. Directing Intelligence shows you how to use AI strategically, bringing it into important work while the thinking is still open so it can challenge assumptions, expand your options, strengthen decisions, and help you find a better path before you commit to one.
The foundation is your own custom AI work a brilliant chief of staff shaped around your role, goals, standards, and ways of thinking. You give it the context of your work, teach it what good looks like, and instruct it to challenge your thinking and help you improve. As you refine it through use and feedback, it becomes an increasingly valuable thinking partner.
And you can build your custom AI as you read. Directing Intelligence includes free access to CraftAI, a guided tool that helps you create the instructions for your own work partner.
Drawing on his experience coaching leaders and teams, Edwin Jansen gives you a practical, proven approach to making strategic AI use part of how you work every day.
I am someone who is a little reticent when it comes to AI. There are times when I feel it could be useful to employ it, but at the same time I have many privacy concerns about what is happening to information I feed it. I requested a review copy of Directing Intelligence as I thought it might help me to think about AI in a new way.
This book seemed to be aimed very much at a certain type of person: a professional in a corporate setting and at middle management level and above. It presumed a certain type of work being undertaken; however, some of the principles outlines could likely be employed in other contexts too. I found it interesting to see the way in which the author guided the different clients in how to phrase their prompts and how to set up their initial context with the AI. I could certainly see how important it would be to have the correct type of input to have the AI work in ways that were more strategic and not just focused on single task completion. Nonetheless, it didn't really quell my privacy worries when I saw how much information the author encouraged clients to share with the AI, and I guess that would depend whether the AI they were using was an open model or something more locked down within their organisation.
Overall, I am giving this book 3.5 stars. I thought it covered many interesting points but I did feel, too, that it concentrated on a certain type of work meaning it may not be as useful for readers whose fields of work don't align closely enough with the suggestions given or those with tighter AI-use restrictions in their workplaces.
I received this book as a free eBook ARC via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.
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