Impossible is not for great leaders. It is for those who are not willing to do the work.

If you are willing to do the work, you can achieve the impossible.

‘If you’re going to find the treasure in complexity, you have to have the tools to see substance in the darkness.’

‘Leading in the era of the mathematical corporation means learning to treasure the detail in systems you never quite knew before.’

‘Tackling complexity without the tools and skills to master it, however, is about as appetizing as digging into a mountain of spaghetti without a fork.’

‘Machine intelligence is the tool for discovering what nobody could see before, at lower cost, and fast enough to save money on non productive time.’

‘When you change your thinking– at the top, middle, and bottom of the organization- people will make not just incremental improvements but breakthrough gains.’

‘Scientific leaders do not excel because of how much they know but because of how much they inquire about what they don’t know.’

‘Information does not inspire action. Emotions do.’

‘Machine learning is not just a learning tool. It’s also a tool for approximation, prediction, and creating original understanding that enhances leaders’ higher level capabilities to imagine the future and to thrive in it.’

‘Without a story, you risk losing people in the flow of what can seem like geeky experiments. The story convinces people in new ideas, acquire new skills, and launch new efforts, whatever the headaches, to make a great transformation happen.’

‘How does the public know the organization has taken the high-road? Only through transparency.’

Source:

Josh Sullivan and Angela Zutavern (2017). The Mathematical Corporation: Where Machine Intelligence + Human Ingenuity Achieve the Impossible