The Digital Mindset: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms, and AI

We look at this book from Harvard Business Review Press which looks at digital transformation. You can see more about the book on their website and also on Amazon too.

The Digital Mindset: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms, and AI, reviewed

This is a timely book, written in an approachable way by author Paul Leonardi and Tsedal Neeley. As it becomes less and less likely to successfully operate without a digital profile and a strategy about how you wish to appear and communicate online, this book aims to offer you a guide to help you navigate your way in the virtual, but deeply tangible and important world.

The book is practical and focussed on offering applied and relevant actions and insights. It also reminds the reader of the need to get things out and live, rather than endlessly tweaking offline content, which can do nothing to help you until you get it online. The authors then provide insights into navigating algorithms to ensure optimal results. The book tackles a variety of topic, in accessible and understandable ways. We would recommend it to those looking to get up to speed quickly in this important area.

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The pressure to “be digital” has never been greater, but you can meet the challenge.

The digital revolution is here, changing how work gets done, how industries are structured, and how people from all walks of life work, behave, and relate to each other. To thrive in a world driven by data and powered by algorithms, we must learn to see, think, and act in new ways. We need to develop a digital mindset.

But what does that mean? Some fear it means that we all need to become technologists who master the intricacies of coding, algorithms, AI, machine learning, robotics, and who-knows-what’s-next.

That’s not the case. You can develop a digital mindset, and this book shows you how. It introduces three approaches—Collaboration, Computation, and Change—and the perspectives and actions within each approach that will enable you to develop the digital skills you need. With a digital mindset, you’ll ask the right questions, make smart decisions, and appreciate new possibilities for a digital future. Leaders who adopt these approaches will be able to develop their organization’s talent and prepare their company for successful and continued digital transformation.

Award-winning researchers and professors Paul Leonardi and Tsedal Neeley will show you how to do it and let you in on the surprising and welcome secret: developing a digital mindset isn’t as hard as you think. Most people can become digitally savvy if they follow the “30 percent rule”—the minimum threshold that gives us enough digital literacy to understand and take advantage of the digital threads woven into the fabric of our world.

A digital mindset will future-proof you, your career, and your organization. Learn how to develop one here.

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