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# The boardroom is opening its doors to add a new member

Fast Company argues that AI is ending the era of gut-instinct-only board deliberation, with leading boards now requiring management to back all strategic claims with AI-driven analysis alongside traditional reports. As AI surfaces blind spots and rewrites how boards govern and challenge, directors who cannot interrogate evidence-based insights risk becoming passengers rather than stewards. For SEA mid-market boards, this is an urgent call to build AI analytical literacy as a core boardroom competency, not a future aspiration.

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Fast Company (https://www.fastcompany.com/91479585/the-boardroom-is-opening-its-doors-to-add-a-new-member)

Topic: Decision Quality: https://lyoenandpartners.com/insights/topic/decision-quality

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