Humans are underrated : what high achievers know that brilliant machines never will
by Colvin, Geoffrey (Author)
Summary
What hope will there be for us when computers can drive cars better than humans, predict Supreme Court decisions better than legal experts, identify faces, scurry helpfully around offices and factories, even perform some surgeries, all faster, more reliably, and less expensively than people? It's ea... Full description
- Computers are improving faster than you are : as technology becomes more awesomely able, what will be the high-value human skills of tomorrow?
- Gauging the challenge : a growing army of experts wonder if must maybe the Luddites aren't wrong anymore
- The surprising value in our deepest nature : why being a great performer is becoming less about what we know and more about what we're like
- Why the skills we need are withering : technology is changing more than just work, it's also changing us, mostly in the wrong ways
- The critical 21st-century skill : empathy is the key to humans' most crucial abilities. It's even more powerful than we realize
- Empathy lessons from combat : how the U.S. military learned to build human skills that trump technology, and what it means for all of us
- What really makes teams work : it isn't what team members (or leaders) usually think. Instead, it's deeply human processes that most teams ignore
- The extraordinary power of story : why the right kind of narrative, told by a person, is mightier than logic
- The human essence of innovation and creativity : computers can create, but people skillfully interacting solve the most important human problems
- Is it a woman's world? In the most valuable skills of the coming economy, women hold strong advantages over men
- Winning in the human domain : some will love a world that values deep human interaction. Others won't. But everyone will need to get better
- and can.