Keep constant watch on the horizon. <\/strong>Uncertainty about the future does not imply an epistemic free-for-all. Sometimes, events will emerge from the mist leaving you with little time to react. But you will often be able to identify inevitable changes well in advance so long as you remain alert for them. Be ready to move quickly to add new AI capabilities to your innovation portfolio and to adapt your organization to deliver on its purpose even as the tech landscape changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cultivate emotional intelligence.<\/strong> Emotional intelligence is the capacity to be keenly aware of your own emotions and the impact they can have on any sort of personal or professional relationship. And although responding to AI is often talked about as an intellectual and technological challenge, it is also an emotional one. We will be living in uncertainty, exposed to dramatic change and finding a way through fears of and dreams for the future. To lead well in such times requires emotional intelligence as an absolute minimum. Emotional intelligence will help you manage your own emotions and your reactions to them and will also help guide your team and organization through the inevitable upheavals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Adopt a \u201cbeginner\u2019s mind\u201d approach.<\/strong> \u201cIn the beginner\u2019s mind,\u201d writes the Zen monk Shunryu Suzuki, \u201cthere are many possibilities, but in the expert\u2019s there are few.\u201d In the context of AI, we can think of this attitude as remaining open to ignorance by accepting the unknown. For the leader, this means being comfortable with not having all the answers. It is only in this way that you will be able to respond appropriately when the unimaginable happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Slow things down even as the world is speeding up.<\/strong> When things are always changing, when the old answers don\u2019t work and the new ones need to be found yesterday, when everything is urgent and important, our natural instinct is to respond with speed. But the Stoic philosopher Seneca points out something important about this reaction: \u201cWhen you hurry through a maze; the faster you go, the worse you are entangled.\u201d This is useful wisdom for living in an evolving AI-driven world. It is indeed a maze, and possibly the most complex one ever created. Instead of hurrying through it, it will pay to instead take our time, to stroll and consider\u2014there is always more time available than you think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Aim for antifragility rather than stability. <\/strong>Nassim Nicholas Taleb\u2019s concept of \u201cantifragility\u201d encapsulates the power that can come from embracing uncertainty: \u2018\u201cFragility\u201d can be defined as an accelerating sensitivity to a harmful stressor: this response plots as a concave curve and mathematically culminates in more harm than benefit from random events. \u201cAntifragility\u201d is the opposite, producing a convex response that leads to more benefit than harm.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n An antifragile organization is one that is designed not just to survive but to flourish in uncertain times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Adapted\/published with permission from ‘<\/em>TRANSCEND‘ by Faisal Hoque (Post Hill Press, Hardcover, April 8, 2025). Copyright 2025, Faisal Hoque, All rights reserved.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How can organizations best navigate the volatility of AI advancement? By focusing on purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31778,"featured_media":362935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[879,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-strategy-2","category-technology"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/chiefexecutive.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/TRANSCEND-Cover-791x1024.jpg\"){kind=spacer}
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