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As the world becomes more volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA), we require highly relationship focused, culturally sensitive, and contextually nuanced global leadership practices for our ever-changing new realities. Turbulent times have accelerated a need for leadership practice for our complex challenges and opportunities, including how to lead with developed technology. However, artificial intelligence (AI) has many lessons to learn from approaches that essentialize and universalize people, and their challenges, so as to do better in addressing challenges in different contexts. The future of leadership depends on how AI is integrated in the VUCA reality. The answer is not to hope that this tool will reduce any elements of this complexity (which is in fact the majority’s current approach to AI), but how to understand the complexity, incertitude, and risks that AI potentially generates. Leadership will not only mean how to work with machines, but also to be aware of where in the leadership’s space the machines are necessary, desirable, or outright unwelcome and potentially harmful.
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Krause, W., Balasescu, A. (2022). Engagement as Leadership-Practice for Today’s Global Wicked Problems: Leadership Learning for Artificial Intelligence. In: Meiselwitz, G. (eds) Social Computing and Social Media: Design, User Experience and Impact. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13315. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05061-9_41
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