David Hockney, one of the world's most famous living artists, is also a proponent of digital art. Hockney would argue significant technological advances occurred in the 15th Century with the arrival of optical devices. Centring around the mid 15th Century a radical transformation in the visual quality of painting happened. What we would call photorealistic today replaced the stylised rendering of the likes of Giotto. An understanding of optics and lenses gave artists a new way to capture the reality that the eye could see.

Researchers have developed a tiny camera that takes amazingly clear photos. At the size of a coarse grain of salt, you may never find it again. Smaller cameras could mean lighter smartphones and new James Bond–style gadgets. Cameras on this scale could swim through the body, hitch a ride on an insect, scope out your brain or monitor hostile environments. And those are just a few of the possibilities.

This week we are joined by Steven MacGregor for the second time on our show. Steven is the founder and CEO of The Leadership Academy of Barcelona and author of Sustaining Executive Performance, and his latest book is Chief Wellbeing Officer, in which he aims to show how to create a more human workplace. He is also an academic specializing in executive education, and has been a researcher at Stanford University, a teacher at IMD at Lausanne, CEIBS in Shanghai and he pioneered executive health teaching at IESE Business School. In this episode we continue to discuss the topics we opened up this season, such as the importance of passion, humanity and leadership in the age of AI and robots, and The Stockdale Paradox of holding two conflicting opinions at the same time, which is a characteristic of the present VUCA environment.

Data continues being created at a faster and faster pace, so it's vital for organizations to figure out how to process, manage, and leverage it to their advantage. Artificial Intelligence uses computers to quickly make sense of data that would take humans countless hours to process, while automation seamlessly applies the data to business processes in meaningful ways. The result is that sales representatives spend less time crunching data and more time doing what they do best: closing deals. LeadGnome uses AI to support the alignment of sales and marketing teams by mining intelligence that it would take human resources hours, days or even weeks to uncover. To see more examples of the most common email replies and the intelligence that can be mined from them, check out our free eBook: Transformative B2B Demand Generation.