Humility Is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age - Softcover

Ludwig, Edward D. Hess And Katherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1525237004 ISBN 13: 9781525237003

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant, 2017

Synopsis

Humility Is the New Smart Your job is at risk-if not now, then soon. We are on the leading edge of a Smart Machine Age led by artificial intelligence that will be as transformative for us as the Industrial Revolution was for our ancestors. Smart machines will take over millions of jobs in manufacturing, office work, the service sector, the professions, you name it. Not only can they know more data and analyze it faster than any mere human, say Edward Hess and Katherine Ludwig, but smart machines are free of the emotional, psychological, and cultural baggage that so often mars human thinking. So we can't beat 'em and we can't join 'em. To stay relevant, we have to play a different game. Hess and Ludwig offer us that game plan. We need to excel at critical, creative, and innovative thinking and at genuinely engaging with others-things machines can't do well. The key is to change our definition of what it means to be smart. Hess and Ludwig call it being NewSmart. In this extraordinarily timely book, they offer detailed guidance for developing NewSmart attitudes and four critical behaviors that will help us adapt to the new reality. The crucial mindset underlying NewSmart is humility-not self-effacement but an accurate self-appraisal: acknowledging you can't have all the answers, remaining open to new ideas, and committing yourself to lifelong learning. Drawing on extensive multidisciplinary research, Hess and Ludwig emphasize that the key to success in this new era is not to be more like the machines but to excel at the best of what makes us human.

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From the Author

Hello, I am ed - thank you for your interest in our book. This book is the most important book of my 12 books. It is a book about human excellence - how we human beings can thrive and flourish in the coming Smart Machine Age by excelling at doing well what technology won't be able to do well at least for the near future. We are on the leading-edge of a technology revolution that likely will be as disruptive for us as the Industrial Revolution was for our ancestors. We as a society and many of us as individuals are not ready for what's coming. In the next 10 years, technology will take over millions of jobs including professional jobs. We humans will be in a frantic footrace to stay relevant. Our answer lies within what makes us unique as humans - our ability to think differently than machines and our ability to engage emotionally with other humans. Based on science and examples, our book offers you a new story about human excellence called NewSmart - a new mindset with four key NewSmart Behaviors -that will help you excel at thinking and engaging with others differently and better than the smart machines will be able to do. Our book is a "how to" stay relevant book with self-assessments and tools. We invite you to join us on the journey to human excellence.

About the Author

Edward D. Hess is a professor of business administration and Batten Executive-in-Residence at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. His professional experience includes twenty years as a business executive and fifteen years in academia. His research and twelve books have a common theme: how organizations and individuals can be consistent high performers. His work has been featured in over 350 global media outlets. Katherine Ludwig is a research, editing, and publishing associate at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. Previously she was a corporate finance and securities lawyer and associate general counsel for a public technology company.

Edition details

• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1525237004
• ISBN 13: 9781525237003
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288