Situational Leadership for AI: More Like a Capable Colleague than a Fancy Formula

Short summary

Effective LLM usage mirrors effective team management: match tasks to model capabilities, provide rich context, and maintain continuity across sessions. Generic prompts produce generic results; organizations standardizing on one model lose value on the table. Apply Situational Leadership principles—different LLMs excel at different things, and better prompting adapts to those differences.

• •Treat LLMs like team members, not vending machines—match task complexity to model capabilities
• •Provide explicit context (who, what, when, where, why, how) and maintain continuity across sessions
• •Don't standardize on a single model; use different models for different jobs based on cost, speed, and capability

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