How can leaders create a culture where employees can discuss controversial topics like AI without fear in the workplace?

Answered at 29:05 in The Value of Struggle · The Way with Best Era

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How can leaders create a culture where employees can discuss controversial topics like AI without fear in the workplace?

First and foremost, it comes back to culture—have you cultivated a culture in your firm or business where you've established that people are allowed to have thoughts and feelings and bring them up. Obviously thoughts around something like AI can be scary to bring up because we want to be careful about directly bringing politics into the workplace, but politics is everything, right, and that line has become less easy to stay on one side or the other.

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First and foremost, it comes back to culture—have you cultivated a culture in your firm or business where you've established that people are allowed to have thoughts and feelings and bring them up.

Guest · The Value of Struggle · The Way with Best Era · answer at 29:05

Key takeaways

  • First and foremost, it comes back to culture—have you cultivated a culture in your firm or business where you've established that people are allowed to have thoughts and feelings and bring them up.

Quote to remember

“How do we talk about these things and how do we engage with them in a way that is productive because nothing is going to get solved like whatever Best Era does or doesn't do with AI.”

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First and foremost, it comes back to culture—have you cultivated a culture in your firm or business where you've established that people are allowed to have thoughts and feelings and bring them up. Obviously thoughts around something like AI can be scary to bring up because we want to be careful about directly bringing politics into the workplace, but politics is everything, right, and that line has become less easy to stay on one side or the other.

Key facts

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People, companies and topics mentioned

Noah KahnNew York TimesNFLCTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy)OJ SimpsonAaron HernandezModernaUConn Law

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