Erika Ayers Badan: You Are The Problem (And The Solution)

January 28, 2026

Source: WORK

This is an episode for people grappling with how to manage and how to embrace AI.

Good managers in the future will seamlessly balance being human, creative, fallible, empathetic and visionary with tools, systems and services which automate all that isn’t differentiated nor distinct.

Managers and people who refuse to adapt and evolve will be extinct in a workplace soon to be fueled by agents (and not the good looking Hollywood kind).Good managers use AI to buy time and insight.

Bad ones either ignore it or dump garbage prompts into it and call that progress.The myth of management is that more people equals more power.

The reality that managing people is hard, bureaucratic, and often inefficient. The future of good leadership looks like fewer people doing better work, supported by better tools.This is WORK.

Unsolicited Advice.

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