Sage Against the Machine
When we recently refreshed our core values at ADVISA, Leadership Consultant, Mandy Haskett, offered up the phrase “Sage Against the Machine” to capture our approach to catalyzing individual and organizational change over the last thirty-nine years.
Aside from being a play off the '90s rock band, the phrase really gets at the existential issue in our face.
For those of us who make our living as some version of a modern sage by sharing our expertise and serving others – coaches, accountants, attorneys, consultants, writers, customer service and admin professionals, teachers – we are actively saging against the machine. Not in a negative or oppositional way, but in an exploratory, enabling, opportunistic, creative way.
AI is rapidly automating generic knowledge, routine outputs, and broad advice. Thus, it's time to exploit the value of expertise which manifests in qualities that machines can’t easily replicate.
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