Evolving Leadership: Governing Smart Systems Responsibly
Traditionally, leaders were evaluated for their ability to establish objectives, develop plans, allocate resources, organize people, supervise execution, and deliver results.
Those responsibilities are no longer sufficient to explain what effective leadership requires.
During the Sixth Great Transition, leaders increasingly govern systems that can observe, analyze, recommend, decide, communicate, and act with reduced direct human involvement. These capabilities operate at different velocities, extend across organizational boundaries, and generate consequences that may outrun traditional oversight.
A leader cannot personally supervise every consequential action. Nor can leadership depend upon the assumption that somewhere in the process a knowledgeable person will notice what is going wrong and intervene in time.
Instead, leaders must design the conditions under which intelligence can contribute responsibly, decisions can remain legitimate, errors can be corrected, people can adapt, and the organization can continue learning.
This changes the focus of leadership from the individual leader’s ability to maintain control...
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