The Smart Machine Age: Humans Need Not Apply

At a recent Next-Gen Executives: Trans-formative Leadership in the Smart Machine Age Summit, I learned that the leadership component was as much or more important than the smart machine part. The professor leading the summit was Dr. Ed Hess from University of Virginia, Darden School of Business. After an exhaustive amount of research, he and his team have written this book titled Humility—a title that points to a key attribute of great leaders.

Trans-formative leadership is all about transforming ourselves in this smart machine age so we can work together with empathy in a collective fashion. We don’t need to be competitors in this technology tsunami that is upon us.

Let me share some some key points from the summit:

  • We are at a cusp of a major transformation of everything, that will usher us into a new age called the Smart Machine Age (SMA). Some technologies to watch:
  1. Internet of Things.
  2. Artificial intelligence.
  3. Machine learning.
  4. Augmented reality.
  5. Virtual reality.
  6. Nano technology.
  7. 3D printed-based manufacturing.
  8. Robotics.
  • The impact of the SMA is bigger than the industrial revolution. The level of automation is going to eliminate so many jobs and we are all going to be out of jobs
  • We are all working harder and harder and getting paid less and less. The median income for most workers has been decreasing since 1999. Wages for average production and non-supervisory workers as of 2013 were 13% less than in 1973, after adjusting for inflation. As a result income inequality is at levels not seen since 1929.
  • The percentage of contingent workers, including part time, temporary workers, and independent contractors is a whopping 40% of the work force according to an April 2015 report of the U.S. Government Accountability office.
  • While automation has been happening, robots have been staying robotic with limited capabilities. Now, that is changing, and machines are getting smarter day by day. They are now able to tackle both cognitive and non routine manual tasks that were previously that used to be the exclusive purview of humans
  • Technology is beginning to replace knowledge workers, people who believed their professions were immune to automation, including accountants, business managers, doctors, lawyers, journalists, researchers, architects, higher education teachers, and consultants.
  • Smart technologies will become ubiquitous, invading and changing many aspects of our professional and personal lives and in many ways challenging our fundamental beliefs about success, opportunity and the American dream

So what is the impact?

  • Oxford University and Bank of England think that technology will replace 47% of US jobs or displace as many as 80 million US workers in the next 10 to 20 years.
  • Humans will have to perform those skills that either complement technology or constitute what machines can’t yet do well. That list includes the following SMA skills:
  1. Critical thinking.
  2. Innovative thinking.
  3. Creativity.
  4. High emotional engagement.
  • In order to survive in the SMA, people need to overcome our inhibiting cultural mindsets, our reflexive and cognitive emotional ways. We need to compete effectively and complement smart machines that will not have any biases, no egos, no emotional defensiveness and no fears.
  • We need to become better thinkers, listeners, relaters, collaborators, need to overcome our culture of obsessive individualism.
  • The four fundamental behaviors that will help us overcome our nature and nurture limitations
  1. Quieting ego
  2. Managing self  – One’s thinking and emotions
  3. Reflective listening
  4. Otherness – Emotionally connecting and relating to others

So what are the important attributes that we need to embody in this SMA? 

The new smart

Currently, smart refers to those who know the most facts and got the best grades or made the fewest mistakes. In the SMA, it is impossible for humans to know more than any machine, and machines will still score better on exams given to both. The new definition of smart reflects the increasing cognitive capabilities of smart machines and is not measured by quantity (how much you know), but by the quality of your thinking, learning, and  emotionally engaging with others, because the machines cannot do all these.

Humility

Humility is not about being subdued or meek. It is about, a mindset about oneself that is open minded, self accurate, “not all about me”, and that enables one to embrace the world as it is, in the pursuit of human excellence. This enables the behaviors that underlie the high performance of SMA skills.

New smart behaviors

It is very important to inculcate the new smart behaviors, not only that but also create an ambiance that fosters such behavior. Most of us will have to train our cognitive, emotional, self-management muscles to excel at the new smart behaviors that underlie the thinking and emotionally engaging skills that  separate us from smart machines. We need to embrace this new smart and cultivate humility. The new environment must be designed to reduce the two biggest human learning inhibitors:  ego and fear. Three psychological concepts form the foundation of that environment are positivity, self determination theory and psychological safety.

Clearly, emerging technologies are already impacting the supply  chain. How do you see these trends and ideas impacting the way you work? How are you preparing for this gargantuan change and the SMA? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.

Originally published at Smartgladiator.com on Feb 28, 2018.

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Puga Sankara is the Founder, CEO of Smart Gladiator LLC. Smart Gladiator designs, builds, and delivers market-leading mobile technology for retailers, distributors, and 3PL service providers. So far, Smart Gladiator LoadProof has been used to ship, receive, and scan more than 100 million boxes. SG LoadProof is a patent pending Centralized Enterprise Photo/Video Document System on Cloud for Supply Chain. SG LP is built on the fact that photos & videos are vital docs as important as POs/SOs/Legal Contracts/Fulfillment Orders that reside in ERP/WMS/TMS systems, that serve as compelling, conclusive, unequivocal proof of crucial, critical, vital operations executed in Supply Chain within/across orgs when fulfilling customer orders as well as meeting contractual obligations between orgs as merchandise is transferred between different parties that partake in Supply Chain functions & operations. And these photos/videos data should not be stored in someone’s Smartphone or Email Inbox or in their personal/work Computer, but should be stored in a Centralized Enterprise system, where such data can be pushed into super-fast, stored securely, accessible to all stake holders (CFO/Sales Reps/Customer Support/AR/AP) in an org, as well as facilitates super-fast retrieval/sharing. LP is an Enterprise System of record for Photo/Video docs & is as important as an ERP which is an enterprise system of record for POs, SOs, Legal Contracts between parties etc. that have huge legal ramifications, also as important as a WMS (Warehouse Management System) that hold indispensable shipment & fulfillment data on orders. Like how Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat etc. have evolved into social media platforms/systems that enable individuals to showcase their beauty/pretty clothes/lovely cosmetics/hep coolness etc., LoadProof is an Enterprise system that holds similar photos/videos, but for a different reason, not for show off, but to serve as compelling, conclusive, unequivocal & indisputable system of record and proof that can be presented even in the court of law, when there is a dispute between parties while they execute many facets of the Supply Chain functions & operations. SG LoadProof is also an Enterprise System of Record for Photos, videos and any other digital documents for your Supply Chain Network. A system of record (SOR) or source system of record (SSoR) is a data management term for an information storage system (commonly implemented on a computer system running a database management system) that is the authoritative data source for a given data element or piece of information. The need to identify systems of record can become acute in organizations where management information systems have been built by taking output data from multiple source systems, re-processing this data, and then re-presenting the result for new business use. In these cases, multiple information systems may disagree about the same piece of information. These disagreements may stem from semantic differences, differences in opinion, use of different sources, and differences in the timing of the extract, transform, and load processes that create the data they report against, or may simply be the result of bugs. The integrity and validity of any data set is open to question when there is no traceable connection to a good source, such as a known System of Record. Where the integrity of the data is vital, if there is an agreed system of record, the data element must either be linked to, or extracted directly from it. In other cases, the provenance and estimated data quality should be documented. The “system of record” approach is a good fit for environments where both: 1. there is a single authority over all data consumers, and 2. all consumers have similar needs Here, LoadProof is the System of Record for pictures and videos for all the entities in Supply chain who uses pictures and videos to track using any Supply Chain System infrastructure. 1. LoadProof provides accurate, thorough, complete, and latest information in pictures and videos related to any entity in the Supply chain that is tracked. 2. LoadProof is the single authority on pictures and videos related to any entity in the Supply Chain that is tracked 3. LoadProof doesn’t let any external system to copy the records being stored in it, which eliminates the data being duplicated in multiple places to preserve the data integrity and credibility. 4. LoadProof has a secured login procedure which lets only users with select level access to view the data and modify the records which helps in maintaining LoadProof is becoming the Industry Standard System for Photo & Video Docs for Supply Chain Smart Gladiator is located in ATDC - Advanced Tech Dev Center (tech Incubator) in Georgia Institute of Tech. Click for a demo - https://loadproof.com/apply Puga is a supply chain technology professional with more than 25 years of experience in deploying capabilities in the logistics and supply chain domain. His prior roles involved managing complicated mission-critical programs driving revenue numbers, rolling out a multitude of capabilities involving more than a dozen systems, and managing a team of 30 to 50 personnel across multiple disciplines and departments in large corporations such as Hewlett Packard. He has deployed WMS for more than 30 distribution centers in his role as a senior manager with Manhattan Associates. He has also performed process analysis walk-throughs for more than 50 distribution centers for WMS process design and performance analysis review, optimizing processes for better productivity and visibility through the supply chain. Size of these DCs varied from 150,000 to 1.2 million SQFT. Puga Sankara has an MBA from Georgia Tech. He can be reached at puga@smartgladiator.com or visit the company at www.smartgladiator.com. Also follow him at www.pugasankara.com. [Read More]
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