710: Becoming an AI-Savvy Leader, with David De Cremer
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
David De Cremer: The AI-Savvy Leader
David De Cremer is the Dunton Family Dean of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business and professor of management and technology at Northeastern University. He’s also an affiliated faculty member at the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University and an affiliated researcher at the Center for Collective Intelligence at MIT. His newest book is titled The AI-Savvy Leader: Nine Ways to Take Back Control and Make AI Work*.
We’ve all heard the warnings that AI is going to take our jobs. That’s certainly a possibility in the long term, but the story emerging, at least for now, is looking a little different. In this episode, David and I discuss how leaders can use AI to augment, not replace, human intelligence.
Key Points
- AI is substantially different than prior digital transformations, and adoption efforts are failing at alarming rates.
- Instead of leading, too often leaders are being too deferential to data and analytics teams.
- Your expertise is exactly what your organization needs to deploy AI successfully.
- Leaders who learn the fundamentals of AI will play an essential role in narrating dialogue between the technology experts and everyone else.
- Get just enough foundational knowledge with statistics and modeling to communicate with the data and analytics folks better.
Resources Mentioned
- The AI-Savvy Leader: Nine Ways to Take Back Control and Make AI Work* by David De Cremer
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| 0:00.0 | We've all heard the warnings that AI is going to take our jobs. |
| 0:03.8 | That's certainly a possibility in the long term. |
| 0:06.8 | But the story emerging, at least for now, is looking a little different. |
| 0:11.3 | In this episode, how leaders can use AI to augment, not replace human intelligence. |
| 0:18.1 | This is Coaching for Leaders, Episode 710. Produced by Innovate Learning, |
| 0:24.9 | maximizing human potential. Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is |
| 0:34.1 | Coaching for Leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac. |
| 0:38.3 | Leaders aren't born. |
| 0:39.9 | They're made. |
| 0:40.9 | And this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom through insightful conversations. |
| 0:46.6 | A conversation we have been having and will continue to have on this podcast is about AI. |
| 0:52.7 | Of course, it is a technology that is transforming so much about how we think. It will |
| 0:57.6 | transform how we work. And of course, it is coming with lots of assumptions, some of them not |
| 1:03.7 | correct, about how we can utilize AI in the best possible way and how we can lead with it. |
| 1:09.8 | Today, I'm so glad to welcome an expert. It's |
| 1:12.1 | going to help us with some perspective on taking the next step, on being more savvy with |
| 1:16.6 | using AI, but also leading with AI. I'm very pleased to welcome David de Kramer to the show. |
| 1:23.4 | He is the Dutton Family Dean of the DeMori McKim School of Business and Professor of Management and Technology at Northeastern University. |
| 1:31.5 | He's also an affiliated faculty member at the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University and an affiliated researcher at the Center for Collective Intelligence at MIT. |
| 1:41.7 | His newest book is titled The AI Savvy Leader, Nine Ways to Take |
| 1:46.6 | Back Control and Make AI Work. David, what a pleasure to have you on. Thank you, Dave. It's a pleasure |
| 1:53.0 | being here. There is so much in this book. We are just going to scratch the surface in this |
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