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Wish You Had Nine Lives? Part 1 of 2
Most adults, young and old, are busy. They may be working long hours especially when raising a family too. Just when they’d finally like to kick back after a tiring day at work – now they gotta run the kiddos to soccer practice or whatever.
Or they may be struggling to juggle school and work. They’re young but, wow, life can get hectic.
Don’t YOU wish you had nine lives to accomplish all you hope to accomplish?
Maybe you’d like to clone yourself? Maybe you’d like to be able to hire others to help.
The ultimate would be to wave a magic wand and everything gets done with one swoosh.
Well, wake up to reality.
To make matters worse, I’m going to mention another issue that may or may not make things worse for you: it’s a feeling that things are out of control – you feel helpless.
Many, if not most, people don’t have a clue on where to start to fix these problems and may lack the insight as to what’s going on and what’s coming down the pipeline. Is this lack of understanding their fault?
Let’s take a look at our economy …
Now, if you don’t know what’s going on here, fear not. This is one topic where you get to slide a little bit … or a whole lot.
I’ll get to the point, I’m going to mention “Agents” – not people but ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AGENTS. Hang in there with me. As things seem to be going faster and faster and you seem to be losing control, along comes technology that will help you sort things out AND do some of your chores!
This is current reality!
Again, hang in there with me … I’m NOT asking you to go out there and hire robots or artificial agents. BUT, here is what you CAN do …
As you go about your work day, consider writing down all the tasks that you do that MIGHT be done by someone else. Whether you’re hiring a robot or a real person THIS PROCESS can be invaluable AND a requirement. If you WERE to hire a robot, you’d go through this exercise because AI Agents and robots have limitations.
So, what can you delegate and can the person you’re hiring DO the tasks that you need to delegate?
Does this make sense?
When I told my eight-year old granddaughter (at the time) that she’ll get my business when she turns 18, she had NO idea what I was talking about. But when I said, “But you have to talk on the phone all day”, she blurted out “OH, I LOVE talking on the phone”!
We’ll guess what – robots and artificial intelligence agents are taking these chores away from business owners, sales people, recruiters, etc. right now!
Big companies have HR departments that write job descriptions (another function that AI Agents can do) and you may not have an HR department. But, you should write job descriptions too. Again, list every task you’re doing and decide which ones could be given to a person or a robot.
Preparing a sufficiently detailed and accurate job description may be the hardest part of hiring a robot or a person.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this topic. Please send an email down below.