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AI Alone Won't Make You Successful - It Will Require LEADERSHIP

Wayne Rivers
By Wayne Rivers
6 minutes
Last Updated May 14, 2025

The airwaves are crowded daily with the latest and greatest revelations about Artificial Intelligence. Trade show gatherings feature speakers and workshops on how AI will change – revolutionize? – construction. IPOs of new AI companies attract millions of dollars from people and funds wishing their investments to hit it big like the next Apple or Google. It would take some gargantuan effort to ignore the hype around AI! What does all this mean to those of us running small businesses in the construction world?

Please tune in this week as Wayne attempts to cut through the hype with three recommendations for making the AI confusion more manageable. The key to making AI pay off for your people and your company will not be more tech wizardry, more money flung at the challenge, or months of slogging through information and demos to find the perfect AI tool. No, the real avenue for success in the coming AI-fueled world will be LEADERSHIP. What is your opinion? Please share with us at [email protected]

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