Dr. Stein discusses his work consulting with executives and teams as a psychodynamic strategy consultant. He discusses the impact psychoanalysis can have on people and dynamics between people within business contexts. He centers decision making and caring in his work and muses about AI and the future from the perspective of the C-suite advisor role. His work is ultimately about how psychodynamic strategy consulting can be used as an intervention for social good and business success at scale.
Introduction
2:58 — Professional Trajectory + Origin Story
7:33 — From Practice to Deployment
8:10 — Call to Retire Idea of Applied Psychoanalysis
11:25 — Considering the Social in Working with Leaders
13:35 — Differences Between Clinical Psychoanalysis, Conventional Consulting, & Psychodynamic Consulting
18:03 — Value + Benefits of a Psychoanalytic Approach with Executives and Teams: Creating Optionality
23:12 — Scaling Expectations + Meeting Goals
25:09 — Organizations as Human Ecosystems
26:03 — Approaching Varieties of Problems + Issues Across an Array of Practice Areas
27:47 — The Nodal Axis in Multiple Domains: Focused Delivery of Expertise in Decision-Making
29:14 — Human Architecture + Psycho-Social Dimensions in Cybersecurity
31:38 — Multidisciplinary Collaborations in Fraud Matters
33:11 — Psychoanalysis as a Technology to Solve Complicated Problems: Overcoming Challenges + Leveraging Value
35:30 — Building Solutions + Mitigating Risks in Socially Responsible + Commercially Profitable Technologies
40:05 — What Will the Future Hold? Barriers + Upsides to Bringing Psychological Expertise into the Technology Space at Scale
44:33 — AI: Risks, Benefits, Potentials
46:15 — A Critical Assessment of AI as a Project to Replicate + Computerize Human Thought
50:10 — Countering the Deficiency of Care in Developing Technological Applications & Services: Balancing the Psychological + Philosophical
52:25 — More on AI: Implicit Disdain for Humanity as a Driving Force
55:32 — Adverse Consequences of Divestiture of Human Connection
58:02 — How to Course-Correct: Technology Issues are Fundamentally Human not Technological
1:00 — The Value of Care: Shared Moral Responsibilities for Harms & Benefits
1:02:42 — Concluding Remarks + Calls to Action
You can find Dr. Stein at: Dolus Advisors: www.dolusadvisors.com/
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