George Martin never out-wrote the Beatles. That’s exactly why he’s the AI leadership lesson we need now
In 1965, Paul McCartney played George Martin a new song called “Yesterday” and asked what it needed. Martin heard something McCartney hadn’t: a string quartet, on a Beatles rock record, when nothing like that had been tried before. The result became one of the most recorded songs in history.
- ▪In 1965, Paul McCartney played George Martin a new song called “Yesterday” and asked what it needed.
- ▪Martin heard something McCartney hadn’t: a string quartet, on a Beatles rock record, when nothing like that had been tried before.
- ▪The result became one of the most recorded songs in history.
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In 1965, Paul McCartney played George Martin a new song called “Yesterday” and asked what it needed. Martin heard something McCartney hadn’t: a string quartet, on a Beatles rock record, when nothing like that had been tried before. McCartney resisted. Martin pushed. The result became one of the most recorded songs in history. That’s the story worth remembering as executives rush to put AI in every meeting: the most valuable person in the room isn’t always the one with the most answers. Sometimes it’s the one who hears a possibility no one else can.Recommended Video Today, I tell people something that sounds almost absurd: the Age of Answers is over. Not because answers no longer matter. Quite the opposite. We have more answers than at any point in human history.
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