Playing Mental Chess with AI: Mastering Timeless Business Frameworks in the Age of Humans + AI (Know Decide Act) Kindle Edition

What if your worst decision looked exactly like your best opportunity?Smart leaders fail every day. The problem is never intelligence. The problem is alignment.Chess grandmasters sharpen their game against opponents who expose every weakness without mercy. Great executives do the same. AI is your sparring partner: a tireless strategic mind that stress-tests your assumptions, maps your blind spots, and sharpens your thinking before the decision counts.In Playing Mental Chess with AI, Keith B. Carter reveals the Alignment Trap: the hidden force that derails experienced executives at the peak of their careers. Drawing on three decades of corporate leadership, AI strategy, and hard-won decision failures, Keith introduces the KDA Decision Engine: a mental operating system built on three disciplines, Know, Decide, and Act, that transforms how you evaluate opportunities, manage stakeholders, and execute under pressure.You will learn to:→ Identify your nonnegotiables before the pressure mounts.→ Map the hidden forces shaping every deal, partnership, and career move.→ Deploy AI as your strategic sparring partner to pressure-test every major decision.→ Stay decisive and grounded when the stakes are highest.→ Align your professional ambition with your deepest convictions.The right decision is always available to you. This book shows you how to find it. Read more