In this episode, host Mitch Simon sits down with Ronen Gafni and Simcha Gluck, creators of the FreshBiz business simulation game and co-authors of The New Entrepreneurs, to break down what entrepreneurial thinking actually means and why it now applies to every single role, from the VP of accounting to the newest person on the team.

What You Will Learn:

- Why entrepreneurial thinking has nothing to do with starting a business

- How AI makes it easier to turn ideas into reality, but only if you already have the skill

- What multidimensional thinking looks like in practice, and why most organizations accidentally kill it

- Why your first idea is always an underdeveloped baby, and how to keep it alive long enough to become something real

- How one shipping problem became a viral PR moment, and what that has to do with your job right now

The Big Idea:

AI is not going to make you more entrepreneurial on its own. But if you already have the instinct to connect dots, include more people, and turn a mundane task into a multi-dimensional win, AI becomes rocket fuel. The question is not whether your role requires creativity. The question is whether you are using the time AI is freeing up to actually do something with it, or just filling it back up with more tasks.

Three Questions to Ask Yourself This Week:

- What game am I playing right now, and what does winning actually look like?

- How can I upgrade my own performance in this role today?

- How can I, from where I sit, help my whole team level up?

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In this opening episode, host Mitch Simon sits down with Ronen Gafni and Simcha Gluck, creators of the FreshBiz business simulation game and co-authors of The New Entrepreneurs, to lay the foundation for the entire season.

What You Will Learn:

- Why using AI to do the same work faster is a trap

- The difference between the old zero-sum game of business and the new one

- What makes humans genuinely irreplaceable in an automated world

- Why the cost of failure has dropped and how to use that to your advantage

- Three behavioral shifts you can apply this week

The Big Idea:

Every time a major technology arrives, the first instinct is to use it to do old things faster. AI is no different. But the leaders who win are the ones asking a different question: not how can AI help me do my work better, but how can AI help me express my art more fully.

Collaboration and creativity are the two things that made humans dominant on this planet. AI is not threatening those skills. It is raising the stakes for them.

Three Shifts to Start This Week:

- Get radically honest in your communication, with people and with your tools

- Name your specific creative contribution, the thing only you bring to the table

- Start failing faster and cheaper, use AI to experiment without the old emotional and financial cost

FreshBiz Game: https://freshbizgame.com/

Watch Full Episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/fxk8MsSKiBU

About the Show:

Fresh Leadership is for leaders and contributors who know the game at work is changing and refuse to be left playing by the old rules. New episodes every week.

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