The AI-Savvy Leader: Nine Ways to Take Back Control and Make AI Work

Written by David De Cremer

Narrated by David Marantz

Leaders, don't let AI get the best of you.



AI is coming fast and will affect every part of a business, including the role of the leader. And up until now, leaders have largely ceded their role in the transformation—pushing determination of strategy out to tech teams and leaving investment decisions with groups that don't have a full view of the organization. Just when responsible leadership is more imperative than ever, leaders are not stepping up to understand and execute in the new world of human-machine collaboration. A generation of AI transformation failures awaits if leaders don't connect their use of AI to their strategies.



This book helps leaders retake control of the wildly rapid deployment of AI across organizations. It outlines cleanly and concisely nine actions leaders need to take to successfully steward a transition to a more AI-centric future that will lead to growth for all—companies and workers—and avoid the kinds of mistakes that author David De Cremer has seen many early adopters already make. This is not a book about AI technology itself or the latest developments in machine learning but rather a clarion call for leaders to take their rightful place at the front of the AI revolution and lead their organization into the new world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ascent Audio
• Release date: Jun 18, 2024
• ISBN: 9781663734501

David De Cremer

David De Cremer is a provost chair, professor in management and the founder and director of the Centre on AI Technology for Humankind (AiTH) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School. He is the former KPMG-chaired professor in management studies at the University of Cambridge, and has been named the most influential economist in the Netherlands (2009–2010), a global thought leader by the Trust Across America organization (2016), and one of the world’s top 30 management gurus and speakers in 2020 by the organization GlobalGurus. He is frequently featured by media worldwide (e.g. The Economist, the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Straits Times, Channel News Asia, BBC), consults companies worldwide, and is a bestselling author, with his recent book, Huawei: Leadership, culture, and connectivity, having sold more than one million copies.