Difference between Human and Artificial Intelligence

Premise: There has been a lot of commentary on the coming of age of Artificial Intelligence in 2023 and how it might even affect the jobs of 300 Million people worldwide. I also read an article on HBR about how good leaders will be hard to replace with AI. There have been discussions around the ethics and intellectual property rights of how these new age algorithms have been trained and the biases inherent in them. Many doomsday predictions have been made. Some thinking has also gone in on how we can work together, helping each other so that we can […]

PBTO: The Art of Leading with Pankaj Rusia

https://traffic.libsyn.com/pushingbeyondtheobvious/PBTO_Pankaj_Rusia_.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Email | RSSPremise: In this first episode of a new series, which will be focused on leadership, we host a practicing leader – Pankaj Rusia. He currently works for SAP as the Head of Customer Success for the SAP HR Cloud business are and is based out of Singapore. As the Head of Customer Success for SAP South East Asia, he is on a mission to make customers look great in front of their leadership, employees, and managers, and to help them get the best out of their SuccessFactors solutions. Insights from the […]

Learn Any Hard Skill by Cal Newport

Premise: We live in a world that is changing much faster than we can keep pace with. The rapid evolution of Artificial Intelligence is a testament to this. As I talk in my book Thrive, we will be called upon to learn something new all the time, just to stay relevant. If we are to thrive, we need to be able to turbo charge our ability to learn. It is in this context that I really liked a video posted by Cal Newport, that he released at the start of the year on his YouTube channel and would like to […]

Infectious Generosity

Premise: I watched this TED talk delivered by Chris Anderson and was inspired by this. He tells a lot of stories that have sparked the imagination of people, who went on to spread a lot of joy by being generous and creative. I also like the concept that Ben Zanders talks about in his book, The Art of Possibility, about “Giving an A”. At the beginning of every class that he teaches, he tells his students that he will give them an “A” as their grade, provided they write him a letter, dated the day their class finishes (and in […]