What qualities will a leader in the AI-enabled enterprise age exhibit? That’s the question posed in this Forbes article, which outlines 10 leadership qualities that are essential – in some measure – for leading effectively in the AI-enabled enterprise.
All 10 qualities are relevant, and it’s worth highlighting three that, from our experience, are particularly relevant in strategizing, planning, and building consensus, and realizing value from AI, applied at scale, to global companies:
1) Agility: AI is here today, but the pipeline of technologies (low code / no-code, vertical solutions, degrees of integration with hardware, platform, ISV, and utility solutions) and commercial models (build vs. buy, GTM and product integration, partnership, IP considerations) presents a wildly dynamic landscape of the possible; leaders will need to navigate this obstacle course at pace;
2) Emotional / Cultural Intelligence: Leaders necessarily need to connect technologies and applications to people, globally, with implications for applicability, acceptance, and use-in-practice, a daunting challenge, necessitating AI leaders, unintuitively, to spend less time on the technology and more time on the humans, and
3) Courage / Focus: Grouped together as two sides of the same coin, AI leaders will need to connect the dots with conviction – translate strategy into initiatives, and build consensus and support around a targeted agenda – to focus the company’s transformational capital into results.
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