Chatrath Nick. The Threshold: Leading in the Age of AI

Diversion Books, 2023. — 592 p. — ISBN 9781635768930.We are living in a new age: the Age of AI. With developments emerging every day, Artificial Intelligence will soon surpass most human competencies, and as a result drastically transform technology’s role in our day-to-day world. The solution for organizational leaders is not to become more like computers. In order for our organizations to survive as we stand at the threshold of a new era, we must tap into the qualities that make us uniquely human.In the face of increasingly intelligent technology, old models of leadership are becoming obsolete. In The Threshold: Leading in the Age of AI, accomplished leadership consultant Nick Chatrath interweaves an analysis of antiquated leadership modes—the ones that leave AI-Era organizations exposed and ineffective with colleagues frustrated, unmotivated, and burnt-out—with his newly developed strategies for more effective “threshold” leadership methods. Supported with anecdotes, research, and a practical toolkit, The Threshold demonstrates that adaptive, effective organizations can be built with human, emotional intelligence: cultivating stillness, nurturing independent thinking, finding rhythms of rest and performance, and raising leadership consciousness. With a basis in the ideas and practices that have shaped our organizations in the past, The Threshold illuminates how accessing advanced stages of human development can be both competitive and harmonious with AI’s growing insinuation into our working world.Prologue: Anti-threshold
Meet the Threshold: Your Invitation to an Evolved Leadership
How to Use This Book
Cultivating Stillness
Following Ai Da
Cancer in His Sophomore Year
“Man, You’re Gonna Be Rich!”
Thinking Independently
Coding Error
An Autumnal Tuesday in Berlin
Special Forces at NATO
Embodying Intelligence
Dinner with Francis Crick... or James Watson?
The Power We Have
Dry Wood Meets Fire
Maturing Consciousness
The Sentient Vending Machine
Kneeling and Freewheeling
Profound Simplicity
Epilogue