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    The Beaver Bot of Yellowstone: Pure-Play Leadership for the Artificial Intelligence Revolution
    The Beaver Bot of Yellowstone: Pure-Play Leadership for the Artificial Intelligence Revolution
    The Beaver Bot of Yellowstone: Pure-Play Leadership for the Artificial Intelligence Revolution
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    The Beaver Bot of Yellowstone: Pure-Play Leadership for the Artificial Intelligence Revolution

    By Al Naqvi and J. Mark Munoz

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    As the artificial intelligence revolution sweeps through the global economy, nothing is more important than pure play leadership. Using a fable, "The Beaver Bot of Yellowstone" guides business leaders on how to lead their firms through the mysterious and complex cognitive transformation. Anyone can master the game with pure play leadership rules. In a reading that lasts no more than a one-way Chicago–DC flight, "The Beaver Bot of Yellowstone" helps leaders who don’t have the time or the patience to read thousands of pages of research and theses to get to the bottom of the leadership principles for the cognitive era.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUnion Bridge Books
    Release dateMay 10, 2018
    ISBN9781785270604
    The Beaver Bot of Yellowstone: Pure-Play Leadership for the Artificial Intelligence Revolution

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      The Beaver Bot of Yellowstone - Al Naqvi

      THE BEAVER BOT OF YELLOWSTONE

      The Beaver Bot of Yellowstone

      Pure-Play Leadership for the Artificial Intelligence Revolution

      AL NAQVI AND J. MARK MUNOZ

      UNION BRIDGE BOOKS

      An imprint of Wimbledon Publishing Company Limited (WPC)

      UNION BRIDGE BOOKS

      75–76 Blackfriars Road

      London SE1 8HA

      www.unionbridgebooks.com

      © Al Naqvi and J. Mark Munoz 2018

      The authors assert the moral right to be identified as the authors of this work.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means without written permission of the publisher.

      The moral rights of the authors have been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      ISBN-13: 978-1-78527-058-1 (Hbk)

      ISBN-10: 1-78527-058-3 (Hbk)

      This title is also available as an e-book.

      In a world characterized by robots, autonomous cars and drones, now more than ever, our link back to nature will be the defining factor for human civilization.

      That is where it all began. Now, as the created become the creators, that link will always remind us of our genesis and who we are, who we are becoming and who we ought to be.

      Dedicated to the American national parks, the wildlife and our park rangers.

      Partial proceeds of this book will be donated to US National Parks.

      Many thanks to Marya for helping with the drawings and artwork.

      CONTENTS

      1Introduction

      2The Story: The Great Flood and Its Aftermath

      3A Seeker’s Search

      4The Rebellion

      5Robots and Automation—the Concept

      6Cognitive Capabilities

      7The Final Struggle

      8CEO Reflection

      Questions for Review

      Questions for Deeper Insights

      About the Authors

      Part Two of the Beaver Story

      1

      INTRODUCTION

      As the world enters the fourth industrial revolution, you have two simple choices: lead or perish. The problem: the cognitive transformation is sweeping through the global economy, and it is not like anything traditional leaders have ever experienced before.

      As retail, financial services, health care and auto sectors are discovering, the rise of intelligent automation is redefining the rules of competition. It is also changing the dynamics of leadership.

      If leaders do not learn quickly, it is highly likely that their careers and their firms will perish. The intelligent automation revolution will be far more unforgiving than the Internet or the information revolution were.

      There are good reasons for that prognosis.

      First, nothing you have done in the past has prepared you for what lies ahead. In fact, most of your leadership skills from the past are irrelevant and inapplicable to what is needed.

      Second, it is quite possible that you have not fully grasped the enormity of the cognitive revolution. You may still be trapped in the information revolution—trying to compete based on information and process superiority. That is not enough anymore. The new competitive advantage is intelligent automation.

      Third, your company’s culture may still be recouping and recovering after the shift from the second to the third industrial revolution (i.e., transitioning to the Internet and information age) and oblivious that the fourth industrial revolution is already upon you.

      Fourth, in this revolution your greatest leadership challenge will be to keep the regular business system stable, while aggressively pursuing the new pure-play leadership.

      Most organizations and their leaders are lightyears behind the pure-play leaders of this new revolution. This is not just a tech revolution. It is not just an automation play. This revolution is being shaped by those who are bold, daring, ambitious and extraordinarily bright. For them, holding multiple PhDs is like owning shirts. They come from diverse fields such as neuroscience, cognitive science, computer science, mathematics, linguistics, biology, political science, public policy and others. Some are MDs and PhDs, others engineers; and medical schooling and lifelong learning are not burdens but fun and adventure for them. Education is not meant to be a paycheck generator, but instead a vehicle for unleashing creativity to solve complex problems. Their purpose in life is not to become a monotonous cog in some corporate machine but instead to design and deploy intelligent machines that are transforming human civilization. Some are still in their 20s and others are 75-year-old professors. But what is common among them is their genius and creativity. Their work ethic is astonishing, and their sheer will to persevere under pressure immense. Most importantly, their commitment to ongoing research and openness in sharing information has propelled and shaped this revolution.

      If you think you can compete with them with your traditional tech teams and workforce, think again.

      If you think you can buy technology from them, forget it. They are not making the technology to sell to you. They are making the technology to automate what your firm does. They are replacing your business models with better business models.

      If you think you can get your

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