Post by Dorothea Ringe

AI & Leadership Here in #SiliconValley the AI revolution is omnipresent. New AI tools come out by the minute and what was revolutionary yesterday may be outdated tomorrow. We discussed intensively during the last days of our TNCC-program at Stanford University with our host Prof. Michael Shanks and with Prof. Sabine Remdisch what it means for us as leaders in our organisations. A few key takeaways emerged: One the one hand the AI transformation is not just a technology shift but requires a leadership transformation as Petra Chequer pointed out in her class on Tuesday. All leaders need to focus more on the human side of the human-technology interaction and use the very human skills of storytelling, conscious communication and strategic networking to ensure that their organizations manage to develop a new vision for themselves during this time of rapid change. On the other hand, leadership also means to lead by example in unlearning old ways of using software just as a tool to get a specific task done and instead starting to treat AI-based software more like a junior colleague. This was demonstrated very convincingly by Subramanyam Kasibhat today. AI as a colleague needs a lot of training in the beginning but is getting better over time in delivering the results it is asked to deliver.  Who has not dreamt of a co-worker who does not get tired and never complains? #AI #leadership #teambuilding Joachim Herz Stiftung Leuphana University of Lüneburg Stanford University