His story captures the unease many people feel about AI. People don’t need their executives to be AI experts. They need leaders to set direction, resource the work and remove barriers.
Growth mindset at the executive level
For years, we’ve encouraged lower- and mid-level managers to adopt a growth mindset — to see challenges as opportunities to learn, not verdicts on their ability. Interestingly, the higher you go, the less often executives hear that feedback. Somewhere along the line, making mistakes or saying I don’t know has become kryptonite.
Psychologist Carol Dweck, author of “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success,” wrote, “In a fixed mindset, people believe their basic qualities, like their intelligence or talent, are simply fixed traits. They spend their time documenting their intelligence or talent instead of developing them.”
