How to Supercharge Strategy While Avoiding Digital Exhaustion with UCSB's Paul Leonardi

Successfully leading a business in the AI-heavy digital age requires a new mindset. In this episode of Minds Worth Meeting, Justin Louis sits down with University of California Santa Barbara professor and Technology Management department chair, Paul Leonardi. We talk about how to cultivate a digital mindset and why it’s so important to do so, he shares strategies for helping employees succeed with generative AI and tells us how to keep digital exhaustion at bay.

In this episode:

• Paul explains how digital technologies like artificial intelligence, especially generative AI, are changing work roles, and what those new roles look like.
• He reassures us that we don’t need to become experts overnight to be digitally literate and explains “the 30% rule.”
• On a topic that many of us feel in our professional and personal lives alike, Paul discusses digital exhaustion and how to avoid it with practical tips that anyone can implement immediately.

 Where to find Paul Leonardi:

• Paul’s website
• Paul Leonardi at the University of California Santa Barbara
• Paul’s book, “The Digital Mindset: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms, and AI“

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