Professor David De Cremer is a world leading thought leader and behavioural scientist with a special interest in managing and leading individual and organizational transformations in the AI era. Currently he is the Dunton Family Dean of D’Amore-McKIm School of Business at Northeastern University in Boston (US). He is also a professor of management at the same institute. Before moving to Boston, he held a Provost Chair at National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School where he was also a professor at management and organizations and the director and founder of the Centre on AI Technology for Humankind (AiTH). He was also the KPMG endowed professor at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He received several career awards for his scientific work, was named the most influential economist in the Netherlands (2009-2010), a Global Thought Leader by the Trust Across America (2016) – Trust Around the World organization, whose annual list recognizes people for efforts “in elevating societal trust, one of the World’s top 30 Management Gurus and Speakers in 2020, a Thinkers50 Radar 2021 (one of the 30 global thought leaders to watch) and included in the World Top 2% Scientists.

His specific expertise concerns developing knowledge and applications to understand more deeply how leaders can be effective and transforming in the new technology era, how building trust can be used as business asset, and why ethics-based compliance and governance is key in driving human-centered tech transformations. His research in these areas has led to several best-selling books including “Leadership by Algorithm: Who leads and who follows in the AI era” and “The AI-savvy leader: 9 ways to take back control and make AI work (will be published by Harvard Business Review Press in 2024).

He is a widely sought after corporate speaker and consultant, has considerable experience in executive teaching and is an advisory board member at Ernst & Young for several global AI projects.

Leaders, don’t let AI get the best of you.

The AI transformation is underway, but where are the leaders who will ensure their companies implement AI successfully and responsibly? Up until now, leaders have largely ceded their role in the AI transformation, pushing strategy formulation out to tech teams and leaving investment decisions to groups that don’t have a full view of the organization or its goals. Just when responsible leadership is more crucial than ever, leaders are abdicating their role in understanding and executing in the new world of human-machine collaboration. A generation of AI transformation failures awaits if leaders don’t connect their use of AI to their strategies.

This book helps leaders take control of the wildly rapid deployment of AI across organizations. Clearly and concisely, it focuses on the nine actions leaders need to take in order to successfully preside over the transition to a more AI-centric future that will lead to growth for all—companies and workers—and avoid the kinds of mistakes that author David De Cremer has seen many early adopters make. What may surprise you is that the nine actions De Cremer focuses on are based on skills that are second nature to successful leaders: creating a vision, communicating well, and executing a strategy. But here he shows you how to apply these skills in the context of AI. This is not a book about mastering machine learning or any of the latest developments in AI technology itself. Rather, it’s a clarion call for leaders to take their rightful place at the front of the AI revolution and lead their organizations successfully into the new world.