leadership obsolete
Is Leadership Obsolete?
The acceleration of Digital Transformation has one of its "ideal" outcomes, in the domain of industry, the attainment of "lights out" factories where the technologies which comprise artificial intelligence have "electronically gifted" machinery doing all the work. I hold to the opinion that no matter how automated we become, owners of billion dollar assets will still want human beings walking around, keeping an eye on things, smelling things, listening for indicators of concern, and applying "intuitive" skills to make sure things are OK. They will, of course, be utilizing more powerful, more intelligent machines than exist today. Visioning and strategy and leadership will still be the domains of human beings. The beneficial outcome for human beings from the burgeoning emergence of artificial intelligence and automation is that it will free up people to do higher value work.