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Latest Read: Own the AI revolution

Own the A.I. Revolution: Unlock Your Artificial Intelligence Strategy to Disrupt Your Competition by Neil Sahota and Michael Ashley. Neil holds an MBA from University of California, Irvine and is CEO of ACSI Labs.

Own the A.I. Revolution: Unlock Your Artificial Intelligence Strategy to Disrupt Your Competition by Neil Sahota and Michael Ashley

Disappointed to read a book that is about the hype of AI with no content. There is little value in the book outside of Chapter 2 which provides a short history of AI. However, this is the basic theme of his book, tidbits without solid background. Perhaps the book needs to address business risk including the impact of AI hallucination rates.

In addition, the second section of this book is just a series of conversations with Thought Leaders. Too many topics to deliver any solid hypothesis. Neil jumps around asking how AI will impact Medicine, Innovation, Law, Language, Education, Sports, etc.. So, you get the picture.

He closes with insights to the deployment of AI services in major Chinese cities and Saudi Arabia. Did not quite follow this closing chapter either. Pure hype to sell a book.

In conclusion, this book certainly has little value and is poorly written. This book also has a somewhat limited audience since the content is lightweight and does not provide any example how organizations can ‘own’ the revolution by adding value.

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Latest Read: The Future of Work

The Future of Work: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review.

The Future of Work: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

Published in 2021 this HBR series is a collection of published articles from authors addressing how AI is impacting work, how organizations can address a fundamental change to workflows, and how employees can thrive in the age of AI.

The most overlooked element addressed it an organization’s downstream impact upon their workforce. Impacted by the pandemic, the accelerating change of digital transformations is changing. Global social justice movements also changed the idea of ‘work’ across the globe. As a result, organizations must adopt new flexible work arraignments.

However success will be organizational shifts to address an inclusive workforce that can result in stronger relationships to their employees. Multiple authors acknowledge how the pandemic changed the depth of relationships between organizational leaders and their employees.

However the key factor of success will be organizational shifts to address an inclusive workforce that can result in stronger relationships to their employees. Multiple authors acknowledge how the pandemic changed the depth of relationships between organizational leaders and their employees.

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Latest Read: Radically Human

Radically Human: How New Technology Is Transforming Business and Shaping Our Future by Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson.

Radically Human: How New Technology Is Transforming Business and Shaping Our Future by Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson

Paul is Chief Technology & Innovation Officer at Accenture. He holds a BS in computer engineering from the University of Michigan. James is Accenture’s Global Managing Director and former Managing Director of Accenture Research.

So, the real compelling idea for this book is the authors upfront note: we wrote the book just as the pandemic began. As a result everything changed, including the pace of change. As such, they indicate “IT changes we planned to undertake over 12 to 18 months occurred in a matter of days.” This actually serves as a baseline for their view of how AI innovations are turning the world upside.

Their focus is explored via an IDEAS framework. This is a combination of innovation components: Intelligence, Data, Expertise, Architecture, and Strategy. Their position: each are building blocks that lead to a future-oriented business marketplace driven by ‘all things’ AI. In addition, their position is that leading organizations will leverage human-machine collaboration to transform their organizational processes.

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Latest Read: Reinventing Jobs

Reinventing Jobs: A 4-Step Approach for Applying Automation to Work by Ravin Jesuthasan and John Boudreau.

Reinventing Jobs: A 4-Step Approach for Applying Automation to Work by Ravin Jesuthasan, and John W. Boudreau

John Boudreau is Professor Emeritus of Management and Organization and a Senior Research Scientist with the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California. He holds a Masters and PhD from Purdue University in Industrial Administration.

Ravin is Senior Partner and Global Leader for Transformation Services at Mercer. Previously he was a Managing Director at Willis Towers Watson. He holds an MBA from Western Michigan University and is a Part-time Lecturer at Caltech’s Executive Education Program.

So, the drumbeats of AI have certainly peaked within 2023. Today ChatGPT is just 13 months old. And while the company is showing its age the impact upon society and business is now at a crossroads.

Accordingly for all the hype of Generative AI, organizations simply do not know how to deploy AI solutions. There are failed AI deployments within 2023. While much of the attention has certainly been to the lack of security and privacy within ChatGPT, the most important aspect for any organizations is confronting AI’s digital disruption including the impact upon employees.

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Latest Read: Overcoming Bias

Overcoming Bias: Building Authentic Relationships across Differences by Tiffany Jana. Tiffany holds an MBA and Doctor of Management in Organizational Leadership from University of Phoenix.

Overcoming Bias: Building Authentic Relationships across Differences by Tiffany Jana

This book addresses why bias matters today and the right terms can increase your fluency. Ultimately Tiffany’s goal is to move readers away from thinking about bias to understanding how to overcome it.

To her credit, Tiffany introduces bias on the most simple of subjects: bias favors one thing over another; bias is a normal human tendency; most bias in harmless; and it is difficult to acknowledge personal bias.

Perhaps a stronger element is how Tiffany is addressing bias passing from generation to generation. And she follows up by outlining those personal hot-button triggers. We all have them and unconscious assumptions about anyone different from our family or close circles. This will influence the best of good intentions.

Tiffany is indicating we need to focus energies on identifying our own privilege and preference. By becoming aware we can make authentic connections at work and at home.

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