AI is expanding your team's cognitive reach but it may also be quietly eroding their cognitive depth. A landmark study from the Quarterly Journal of Economics reveals that the capacity to sustain deep, effortful thinking is trainable, transferable across domains, and can't be replaced by incentives. The implications for AI-enabled organizations are significant.

Chad unpacks the research and connects it directly to the middle market leadership challenge: when AI handles the routine cognitive work, what's left are the judgment calls, the ambiguity, and the strategic integration that demand sustained focus - not faster reactions. He introduces a simple framework (reach versus depth) and lays out three concrete moves you can implement this week: designing AI deployments that protect sustained thinking, building cognitive endurance into leadership development, and auditing your AI stack through an endurance lens.

If your organization is getting faster but you're not sure it's getting sharper, this episode gives you the research and the playbook to close that gap.

AI For the C Suite™ podcast keeps C-Suite leaders informed and engaged in the world of AI for business. If you're a CEO, President, Owner, or C-suite leader looking to understand how AI will impact your organization, you've found the right podcast. AI for the C-Suite™ is a continuous learning and application experience that exists to unite, elevate, and equip leaders to navigate the Exponential Age.

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AI is becoming incredibly good at giving answers... but that may be exactly what limits creativity.

In this episode of AI For The C-Suite, Pip Bingemann breaks down why most language models push people toward the same outputs, why accuracy and creativity are fundamentally different goals, and how frameworks, curiosity, and time play a bigger role in great work than tools alone.

We talk about:

• Why AI models tend to converge on the same ideas

• Creativity vs accuracy and why that distinction matters

• How humans and AI judge creative work differently

• Why teaching frameworks beats prompt engineering

• The role of time, tension, and process in meaningful work

• How early experiments turned into a real company

This conversation is less about hype and more about how leaders, creatives, and teams should actually think about using AI.

Watch the podcast here: youtu.be/QZOj6gowXvs Connect with Pip: linkedin.com/in/pipbingemann

Note: This podcast contains adult language.

New research from Virtuous AI and Chief Executive Group surveyed over 300 mid-market CEOs and one number demands attention: 78% say their primary AI objective is efficiency and cost reduction. Only 19% are treating AI as a transformational opportunity.

Chad unpacks what he's calling "the 10% trap"—using AI to make your current business incrementally faster or cheaper while competitors reimagine what their business does entirely. The episode breaks down the gap between AI as analyst and AI as operator, why that gap is where ROI goes to die, and the single question that separates companies building real strategic advantage from those optimizing on quicksand.

If your AI initiatives are delivering efficiency wins but you can't articulate what AI is actually accountable for in your organization, this episode gives you three moves to close that gap—starting with an honest audit of where your strategy actually stands.

AI For the C Suite™ podcast keeps C-Suite leaders informed and engaged in the world of AI for business. If you're a CEO, President, Owner, or C-suite leader looking to understand how AI will impact your organization, you've found the right podcast.

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