AI Summary
→ WHAT IT COVERS Masters of Scale presents five leadership lessons for navigating 2026's disruption, drawn from AI executives, nonprofit leaders, and entrepreneurs managing rapid technological change and uncertainty. → KEY INSIGHTS - **AI Planning Cycles:** Runway CEO resets product roadmaps weekly, not quarterly, using open-ended research boundaries rather than specific goals to enable discovery and avoid being leapfrogged by competitors. - **Human Skills Priority:** LinkedIn's economic officer identifies five core human capabilities - courage, compassion, creativity, curiosity, and communication - as the differentiating skills when AI handles routinizable tasks. - **Values-Based Decisions:** Focus on principal decisions over business decisions, choosing actions you'll be proud of regardless of outcomes, while maintaining collective action with other leaders during challenging periods. - **Healthy Tension Strategy:** Autodesk CMO advocates taking calculated risks by opining with spine on topics where your brand has earned credibility, creating healthy tension without crossing into toxic territory. → NOTABLE MOMENT Jose Andres encourages leaders to walk outside and observe functioning systems - hospitals, airports, married couples - to remember humans have built a good world worth improving together. 💼 SPONSORS [{"name": "Freshworks", "url": "freshworks.com"}, {"name": "Rippling", "url": "rippling.com/scale"}, {"name": "Capital One Business", "url": "capital1.com/businesscards"}, {"name": "Project Management Institute", "url": "pmi.org"}] 🏷️ AI Leadership, Crisis Management, Human Skills, Strategic Planning