Keillor on AI

Meanwhile China is biding its time. In Asia competence and brilliance are respected over swagger. The advance of AI brings us into a new era in which macho mythology is not helpful.

At one of our recent Leadership and Mastery programs, I talked to a manager who was born and raised in India, and who has worked in both United States and Japanese firms. She said that when a person in a Japanese firm sits quietly, no one will come and interrupt. It is assumed the person is thinking. On the other hand, when the person is up and moving about, coworkers feel free to interrupt.

 

Isn't it interesting," she said, "that it is exactly the opposite in American firms? In America, we assume that when a person is sitting quietly he isn't doing anything very important."