The era of human capital is coming to an end. It’s time to go beyond models that focus on people as resources – and grasp instead the possibilities they present. In this issue of Dialogue, we focus on how leaders can recalibrate their perception of the people in their organizations.
We ask: what does it mean to recast people as possibilities – and how does leadership need to shift as a result? In this issue’s Focus, we explore how possibility thinking changes our relationship with the future and shapes our decisions in the present. We ask how leaders can begin to see the possibilities in others more clearly, especially when it comes to the unseen talent already present in their organizations. We explore the enduring power of the ability to form human connections. And we explore how technologies such as artificial intelligence and gene editing are changing the possibilities for humanity – in the labour market of tomorrow, and at the frontiers of what it means to be human.
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Q4, 2017 – Into the wirearchy: Leading from the centre in a volatile world
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