SightShift with Chris McAlister

AI Is Not a Rescue Plan | Lunch with Chris

You pulled into the garage. You paused: should I be doing this? When AI can out-converse 97% of humans, the question it raises isn't about productivity. It's about identity: what am I for?

Your AI Prompts Are an X-Ray | Lunch with Chris

If your team had to guess which messages came from you and which came from AI — would they know? Every prompt you write is an X-ray. Here's what yours is revealing about your leadership.

What 1,000 Leaders Revealed: 87% Hide Under Pressure | Lunch with Chris

We measured how over 1,000 leaders show up under pressure — and across 37 companies, one pattern kept repeating. At the C-suite level, 87% default to hiding. Not yelling. Not dominating. Hiding. And it doesn't look like fear — it looks like composure.

AI Doesn't Fix Bad Leadership. It Amplifies It.

AI doesn't make you a better leader. It makes you a louder version of the leader you already are.
In this episode, Chris and Mark walk through the framework at the heart of the new book
The 3% Shift — the three human capacities AI can imitate but never replace:
Imagination — AI optimizes what exists; it can't picture the unseen reality worth leading toward.
Discernment — hard-fought wisdom that knows the territory, not just the map.
Relationship — AI remembers every mistake. Only a human can forgive one.
You'll hear why chasing AI as a shortcut quietly trains it to amplify your insecurities, and how to use it to sharpen your thinking instead of outsourcing it.
If you lead a team and feel the pull to let the tool do your thinking, this one's for you. 

The Data Nobody Has | Lunch with Chris

Most companies have data on revenue, retention, and engagement. Almost none have data on what their leaders actually do under pressure. SightShift® does — across over 1,000 leaders and 37+ organizations. Today on Lunch with Chris: the data nobody has on your leaders, and the #1 mistake it reveals.

Why You Want Your Competitors Using AI

In episode 2 of the 3% Shift series, Chris and Mark go deeper than the identity gap they named in episode 1, into what happens when the most powerful technology ever built quietly trains itself to mirror your insecurities back at you. The higher up the org chart you sit, the faster the loop accelerates. AI doesn't just hand you an echo chamber. It hands the C-suite a long, slow, well-funded death propped up by an assistant that always says yes.

New Series: 3% Shift | The AI Conversation Nobody Is Having Correctly

Everyone is talking about AI. Almost no one is talking about it correctly. In this kickoff to a new SightShift series, Chris and Mark argue that the AI conversation is stuck in two ditches, terror on one side, worship on the other, and the real story is something most leaders haven't named yet. AI isn't revealing a skills gap. It's revealing an identity gap. And for the 97% of leaders running on insecurity, that's a feedback loop most aren't ready to see. If you're a leader quietly anxious about AI and tired of the hype on both sides, this series is the version of the conversation you've been waiting for.

The Nine Stops Every Real Breakthrough Has to Hit

In the final episode of the Make Culture Your Edge series, Chris and Mark walk through the Culture Impact Script: the nine-stop framework SightShift uses to take teams through a real breakthrough.
Using Michigan basketball's national championship as the running example, Chris breaks down what it actually takes to sustain greatness, not just talk about it