Humility Is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine AgeSmart machines are replacing more and more jobs. Edward Hess and Katherine Ludwig show how to develop abilities that machines don't have so we can thrive in this Smart Machine Age. Underlying them all is a sense of personal humility: honestly recognizing our limitations and working to mitigate them. In nearly every industry, smart machines are replacing human labor. It's not just factory jobs-automated technologies are handling people's investments, diagnosing illnesses, and analyzing written documents. If we humans are going to endure, Edward Hess and Katherine Ludwig say we're going to need a dose of humility. We need to be humble enough to let go of the idea that smart means knowing the most, using that information quickest, and making the fewest mistakes. Smart machines will always be better than we are at those things. Instead, we need to cultivate important abilities that smart machines don't have (yet): thinking critically, creatively, and innovatively and building close relationships with others so we can collaborate effectively. Hess and Ludwig call this being NewSmart. To develop these abilities, we need to practice four specific behaviors: keeping our egos out of our way, managing our thoughts and emotions to curb any biases or defensiveness, listening to others with an open mind, and connecting with others socially and emotionally. What all these behaviors have in common is, again, humility-avoiding self-centeredness so we can learn from and work with other humans. Hess and Ludwig offer a guide to developing these NewSmart abilities and to creating organizations where these qualities are encouraged and rewarded. |
Contents
A New Game Requires New Rules | |
A New Definition of Smart | |
The Gateway to Human Excellence in the | |
Quieting | |
Thinking and Emotions | |
Reflective Listening | |
Emotionally Connecting and Relating to Others | |
Your NewSmart Behaviors Assessment Tool | |
Leading a NewSmart Organization | |
Your NewSmart Organizational Assessment Tool | |
Notes | |
Recommended Reading | |
Index | |
About the Authors | |
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