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In his book The Seventh Sense, Joshua Cooper Ramo makes the point that we now live in a world where “thick connection is normal” and the mastery of this connection is the essential skill of the age. This is true for everyone, but it is particularly true of our leaders – political, religious, and business.
Not surprisingly, tech companies – and their executives – get it. Uber and Lyft use algorithm “managers” to dispatch drivers, while Waze outperforms my Volvo’s sat nav by predicting the best route based on the real-time and stored driving data of its users.
But, really, business leaders in all industries need to master the network, not in some mid-distant future, but now. We are interacting with algorithms every day, in ways so mundane that we fail to notice (Google, you auto-complete me). And in professions as diverse as medicine, manufacturing, and law, we see viable examples of human-machine teams.
So how does one lead in the age of algorithms? To lead is to master the network.
This topic deserves – and has already garnered – significant study elsewhere. But for the purposes of exploring at a high level – and frankly, for my personal commitment to my own development – I set out here to address four questions:
Will we need leaders?
What will leaders do?
What skills do they require?
Who will lead?
Via David Hain
