Organizational Leadership in the Era of AI

Technology breakthroughs need management breakthroughs—and as leaders and organizations around the world invest in AI, leadership is the biggest determination of whether or not those investments will create value.

This course provides a blueprint for leaders and managers who want to harness the potential of AI to create value for their organization, their teams, and the world. Based on insights, frameworks, and a new system of leadership introduced in his book, Autonomous Transformation: Creating a More Human Future in the Era of Artificial Intelligence–which was selected by Thinkers50 as one of the Top 10 Best New Management Books for 2024–Brian Evergreen weaves strategy, economics, systemic design, management thinking, and philosophy into actionable steps for leaders across functions and industries for creating value in today’s context. Join Brian in this course to learn how to apply a new approach to organizational leadership built-for-purpose for the era of AI.

Learning objectives
Understand the new demands on leadership in the AI era.
Describe the necessary shift from digital to autonomous transformation, and identify leadership roles in this evolving landscape.
Explain the shift from viewing organizations as machines to understanding and leading them as social systems.
Acknowledge the limitations of data-driven strategies and develop reason-driven approaches, harnessing opposing views and allocating resources effectively.
Contrast problem-solving with future-solving, emphasizing the importance of synthesis in addition to analysis, and develop a process for building value cases for AI applications.