Hess Edward D. - Humility Is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age

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As a venture capitalist, I have a front-row seat to the way advances in robotics, sensors, and artificial intelligence are changing the way we workand its happening faster than you think. Once again, Ed Hess is out front in his researchthis time on the skills and behaviors that will determine whether people and organizations succeed or fail as they adapt to the new reality of working side by side with machines. From CEOs to students, thus is a must-read.

Frank H. Foster, Managing Director, Frontier Venture Capital

This book was a revelation to me. Who knew that the secret to survival in this intimidating new world of machine intelligence was for us to become more human? In both our business and our private lives, we can choose fear and ego and retreat into ourselves in the face of these challenges, or we can embrace collaboration and positivity instead. Hess and Ludwig show us how to make the life-affirming choice.

Jeanne Liedtka, coauthor of Designing for Growth and Solving Problems with Design Thinking

An insightful, practical, enriching book for individuals and organizational leaders. NewSmart can be a key to unlocking immense organizational value, one human interaction at a time.

Sean Ryan, Senior Vice President, McGraw-Hill Education

This book makes the compelling case that true competitive advantage requires human excellence. If you want to be an agile, adaptive, and enabling leader, this book is a must-read.

Marvin Riley, President, Fairbanks Morse Engine

Original and counterintuitive, this book is essential reading for all who would prepare for the great transformation of employment and work that lies ahead.

Rashmi Prasad, Dean, College of Business and Public Policy, University of Alaska Anchorage

This compelling book is about how we can succeed in the age of AIby excelling at what differentiates us as humans. Leaders will have to be good at not knowing, quieting their ego and mastering their fears of looking bad and making mistakes. Instead of managing others, leaders will have to manage themselves to enable others.

Peter Rodriguez, Dean, Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University

Hess and Ludwig offer revolutionary approaches to self-management along with innovative and insightful leadership platforms for the Smart Machine Age. A powerful book!

Jeanette K. Winters, Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resource Officer, Igloo Products Corporation

Outstanding book with rock-solid arguments about why doing a good job will no longer be good enough in a smart machine world and how NewSmart beliefs and behaviors can help humankind master this challenge.

Kurt D. Bettenhausen, Chair, Digital Transformation Group, VDI, Germany

How must our notions about individual and organizational excellence adapt to the Smart Machine Age? Hess and Ludwig offer insights that are perceptive, provocative, and powerful! Their ideas can help your organization and you adapt to the coming transformations spurred by big data, deep learning, artificial intelligence, and automation.

Robert F. Bruner, University Professor, University of Virginia

Humility Is the New Smart is a must-read for business and political leaders, parents, teachers, and everyone interested in understanding the challenges and opportunities of the coming Smart Machine Age. The explanation of humilityits philosophical meaning and application to leadershipis the best Ive ever read.

Fernando Merc, President, Latin America and Caribbean, Nestl Purina

Hess and Ludwig crush it in Humility Is the New Smart. They introduce the compelling concept of NewSmart, which will help learners successfully navigate the coming Smart Machine Age. They want our young people to be adaptive lifelong learners, and embracing NewSmart is a path to learning for the future, not our past.

Dr. Pamela R. Moran, Superintendent, Albemarle County Public Schools, Virginia

This fascinating examination of what it will take to thrive in the Smart Machine Age offers a compelling and profoundly humane manual on how to achieve our highest expressions of excellence, in business and in all our interactions.

Ming-Jer Chen, former President, Academy of Management, and Professor, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia

Humility Is the New Smart provides a provocative view of the kinds of individual skills necessary to succeed in the future. Through their exhaustive interdisciplinary research, the authors give us practical advice on how we can best prepare ourselves to excel in the Smart Machine Age.

Wally Walker, founder of Hana Road Capital and former CEO, Seattle Supersonics

As a father and the leader of a school responsible for preparing students for their future, I embraced the authors premise that we need to change our mindsets, skills, and behaviors for a more dynamic technology-based world. They provide compelling research and very practical tools to help us on our journey. Listen wellour futures and our childrens futures depend on it.

G. Thomas Battle, Jr., Headmaster, Virginia Episcopal School

Humility Is The New Smart

Rethinking Human Excellence
In the Smart Machine Age

Edward D. Hess
Katherine Ludwig

Humility Is the New Smart

Copyright 2017 by Edward D. Hess

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