Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age

In the Smart Machine Age, many of us will have to relearn the process of how to iteratively learn. And we will have to relearn how to be curious like a child and to be courageous like an explorer.

In the Smart Machine Age, human beings will be needed to do those tasks that technology won’t be able to do well. What type of leader is needed in that kind of environment? It won’t be a command-and-control, hierarchical leader.

A likely result of the Smart Machine Age is the demise of the dominant business and leadership model built for the Industrial Revolution, which was designed to direct and produce high efficiency, standardization and reliability.

In this video, Darden Professor Ed Hess discusses the science of learning and a new definition of the word “smart.”