The AI-Savvy Leader

Running counter to the sometimes unrealistic promises associated with automation, this book defends a vision of AI as a lever for augmenting the effectiveness of human work. The author, a specialist in leadership and digital transformation, draws on numerous real-life experiences—both successes and failures—to shed light on companies' strategic choices. He warns against common pitfalls: deploying AI without a strategic direction, delegating without monitoring one's recommendations, or delegating to technology without supporting human evolution. For David De Cremer, leaders do not need to become AI experts, but neither can they disengage themselves from it to the point of exclusively entrusting their IT or innovation department with considerations concerning vision, arbitration, pedagogy and exemplarity. A valuable work for leaders concerned with creating the conditions for a serene appropriation of AI, a guarantee of sustainable performance, as well as of smarter and more human work.