The Leap Human Performance Will Require
Dear reader,
As you tackle your challenges and prepare for your critical moments, here are three thoughts to consider this month.
TOMORROW
OLD MODELS WON'T WORK ANYMORE
During my last trip to Abu Dhabi, I had a great conversation with Nancy Gleason, NYU Abu Dhabi Professor for Future of Work. We talked a lot about the coming AI tsunami, the rapid increase of robotics, and the current efforts to bring people up to speed. Upskilling is currently a very hot topic in the UAE. Microsoft recently initiated a project to train Emiratis to make them AI literate. It seems everyone wants to establish training centers for Emiratis.
As we talked, I was struck by a question: Are we just training our leaders for today’s known challenges instead of thinking ahead to the bigger challenges we will need to address from tomorrow’s unknowns?
Pondering this, we identified three issues that commonly get ignored:
.01 Rapid disruption means intellectual and technical skills will become outdated faster than they can be taught.
.02 AI isn’t just changing jobs; it’s accelerating workplace stress, decision fatigue, and cognitive overload. This means technical training won’t solve critical elements of the problem.
.03 If our research is correct and most business professionals already struggle with exhaustion, brain fog, and feeling overwhelmed, how will they possibly deal with the disruption that is undoubtedly coming? This means if Sustainable Human Performance was perceived as a “nice to have” instead of a “must have” in the past, it would be even more critical in the future.
After a great conversation on the topic, we came to the conclusion that a leap in human performance will certainly be needed in the future. A leap that will require changing the old models and creating a new human performance framework.
The future won’t wait for slow, fatigued, scattered, and numb thinkers, or as we have called them in the past, sinkers and floaters.
TODAY
BETTER PROMPTING
In the last Tomorrow.Today.Yesterday, we talked about the countertrend to negativity and bitterness. We called it kindness.
After talking with Nancy, I started to add kindness to my prompts when using AI. She shared with me that the way we interact with these LLMs trains and conditions them. So adding a “please,” an “I would love if you would,” or any similar instruction with kindness could positively impact our interactions with these intelligences in the future. As crazy as it sounded, it makes total sense. As you shout into the forest, it echoes back.
Do you have an approach to this already? Let us know.
YESTERDAY
BE INTENTIONAL
For many years, we quoted Aristotle as saying, “Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit.” We did this because psychologists often say that 95% of our behaviors are non-conscious and automatic.
Based on what we know now, after 20 years of helping our clients make positive behavioral changes, we would say it differently. Excellence is not a singular act but a series of choices done with the intention of creating personal excellence.
Are your habits getting you what you want? Are your choices intentionally creating the personal readiness you need to be excellent? Let us know.
Stay well, and even in your busiest times, remember that we can all BeMore.
Cheers,
Jogi
Jogi Rippel
TIGNUM Co-Founder and CEO