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Three years ago we recorded one of the first Work Professor podcasts with Maarten Steinbuch titled 'how to keep up in a world that is learning exponentially faster than you are'. Time to catch up with the Netherlands' best-informed professor on the relationship between technological change and the role of leadership and work.
Today we discuss with Maarten what skills you need as an executive to really turn technological change in the workplace into progress? Maarten Steinbuch is a Dutch scientist in the field of high-tech systems, entrepreneur and communicator. He is a university professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, where he holds the chair in Systems & Control
The key to the future
One thing Maarten has learned since the last time he was a guest of the Work Professor is that human behavior is very controllable after all. Technology is moving very fast, technological developments are still going exponentially, but ultimately it is people's behavior that determines how society is going to change for the better.
Maarten sees that many companies struggle with the fact that they have data about products, customers and services, for example, but that they are not yet sure what to do with it when you look at AI. He expects that in a few years Chat GPT machines will not only be able to generate documents and increase our efficiency, but they will also be able to relate to data collection and start doing meaningful things with that data.
Takeaways
- Most breakthroughs happen because people believe in something together. AI is growing, but you're not going to replace people.
- Don't ask yourself first, "What can technology do for us?" but turn the question around. 'What do you and your employees think is important? What is the essence of how we treat each other?' Make sure you retain that and then look there the other think what technological solutions you can find for that.
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Work Professor episode: 'How to keep up in a world that is learning exponentially faster than you are'
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