The Human Edge: How curiosity and creativity are your superpowers in the digital economy

WINNER OF THE BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020!

The world is spinning so fast it’s difficult to keep up. Two hundred and fifty years ago the
Industrial Revolution replaced our arms and legs at work. The fourth Industrial
Revolution is now replacing our brains. This technological shift is engulfing organisations
and people. It’s challenging the very essence of what it means to be human.
Daily news headlines pose existential questions that used to belong in the pages of
science fiction: Will a machine take my job? Are we becoming cyborgs? What happens
when supercomputers become self-aware? If we can’t compete with artificial intelligence,
what’s left?

Innovation guru Greg Orme provides a helpful, funny and supportive shove in the right
direction. He explores the skills you need to survive and thrive in a world of artificial
intelligence. He urges you to stop competing, and instead do things machines can’t. To
become a more human, human.

This is a practical toolkit to master three intrinsically human ‘super powers’:

1. To ignite your innate CURIOSITY in a world of accelerating change…
2. To rediscover your CREATIVITY to produce an avalanche of game-changing ideas…
3. To develop CONNECTIVITY to kindle the passion, persistence and insights to successfully engage fellow humans to turn human creativity into business innovation.

These career-enhancing capabilities have been identified in Orme’s work with business
managers and organisations across the globe. They draw upon the latest psychological
and neuroscience research, the unique philosophies of successful entrepreneurs, the
practises of the world’s most innovative companies, as well as the habits of great artists,
designers and scientists.

Learn how to surf, rather than sink, in the waves of the Fourth Industrial
Revolution. Become an authentic future-fit human, in a world of artificial
intelligence.

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The Human Edge: How curiosity and creativity are your superpowers in the digital economy

WINNER OF THE BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020!

The world is spinning so fast it’s difficult to keep up. Two hundred and fifty years ago the
Industrial Revolution replaced our arms and legs at work. The fourth Industrial
Revolution is now replacing our brains. This technological shift is engulfing organisations
and people. It’s challenging the very essence of what it means to be human.
Daily news headlines pose existential questions that used to belong in the pages of
science fiction: Will a machine take my job? Are we becoming cyborgs? What happens
when supercomputers become self-aware? If we can’t compete with artificial intelligence,
what’s left?

Innovation guru Greg Orme provides a helpful, funny and supportive shove in the right
direction. He explores the skills you need to survive and thrive in a world of artificial
intelligence. He urges you to stop competing, and instead do things machines can’t. To
become a more human, human.

This is a practical toolkit to master three intrinsically human ‘super powers’:

1. To ignite your innate CURIOSITY in a world of accelerating change…
2. To rediscover your CREATIVITY to produce an avalanche of game-changing ideas…
3. To develop CONNECTIVITY to kindle the passion, persistence and insights to successfully engage fellow humans to turn human creativity into business innovation.

These career-enhancing capabilities have been identified in Orme’s work with business
managers and organisations across the globe. They draw upon the latest psychological
and neuroscience research, the unique philosophies of successful entrepreneurs, the
practises of the world’s most innovative companies, as well as the habits of great artists,
designers and scientists.

Learn how to surf, rather than sink, in the waves of the Fourth Industrial
Revolution. Become an authentic future-fit human, in a world of artificial
intelligence.

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The Human Edge: How curiosity and creativity are your superpowers in the digital economy

The Human Edge: How curiosity and creativity are your superpowers in the digital economy

by Greg Orme
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The Human Edge: How curiosity and creativity are your superpowers in the digital economy

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WINNER OF THE BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020!

The world is spinning so fast it’s difficult to keep up. Two hundred and fifty years ago the
Industrial Revolution replaced our arms and legs at work. The fourth Industrial
Revolution is now replacing our brains. This technological shift is engulfing organisations
and people. It’s challenging the very essence of what it means to be human.
Daily news headlines pose existential questions that used to belong in the pages of
science fiction: Will a machine take my job? Are we becoming cyborgs? What happens
when supercomputers become self-aware? If we can’t compete with artificial intelligence,
what’s left?

Innovation guru Greg Orme provides a helpful, funny and supportive shove in the right
direction. He explores the skills you need to survive and thrive in a world of artificial
intelligence. He urges you to stop competing, and instead do things machines can’t. To
become a more human, human.

This is a practical toolkit to master three intrinsically human ‘super powers’:

1. To ignite your innate CURIOSITY in a world of accelerating change…
2. To rediscover your CREATIVITY to produce an avalanche of game-changing ideas…
3. To develop CONNECTIVITY to kindle the passion, persistence and insights to successfully engage fellow humans to turn human creativity into business innovation.

These career-enhancing capabilities have been identified in Orme’s work with business
managers and organisations across the globe. They draw upon the latest psychological
and neuroscience research, the unique philosophies of successful entrepreneurs, the
practises of the world’s most innovative companies, as well as the habits of great artists,
designers and scientists.

Learn how to surf, rather than sink, in the waves of the Fourth Industrial
Revolution. Become an authentic future-fit human, in a world of artificial
intelligence.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781292267883
Publisher: FT Press
Publication date: 12/09/2019
Pages: 296
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Greg Orme is a globally-acclaimed thought leader, author and keynote speaker who has
delivered more than 350 talks to executive audiences around the world. His work focuses
on how leaders and organisations thrive in a world of accelerating change – through
developing behaviours, processes and culture which support creativity, innovation and
entrepreneurial spirit.

He is a lecturer and programme director at the London Business School where he
founded the Centre for Creative Business. He leads transformational change
programmes with global clients in banking, automotive, MCG, manufacturing and
technology in Europe, Russia and China. He also directs the international ‘Grow Your
Business’ Programme with the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO).

Table of Contents

About the author xiii

Author's acknowledgements xiv

Publisher's acknowledgements xvi

Part 1 The Hunan Challenge 2

1 Become a more human human 4

Why you need to stop competing with, and start differentiating from, artificial intelligence

2 Say hello to Frankenstein 24

How to distinguish yourself from Al (and robotic humans)

3 Who stole your imagination? 40

How to embrace your creative potential

Part 2 The Human Edge 56

Consciousness

4 The power of purpose 61

How finding motivational meaning unleashes the 4Cs

5 Fire up your laser 83

How to direct your creative energy in a distracted world

Curiosity

6 Incuriosity killed the cat 107

Why you need to catalyse your curiosity to learn faster than the world is changing

7 Find exciting problems 127

How to question everything to weaponise curiosity

Creativity

8 Luck is a skill 149

How to acquire the creative habit to make inspiration more likely

9 Sharpen your edge 169

How to borrow the secrets of creative superstars to hove more ideas

Collaboration

10 Raising ugly babies 191

How to build a powerful network of human collaborators

11 Think big, start small, learn fast 209

Why you need to constantly experiment to test your ideas to destruction - or greatness

Epilogue: What's next? 224

Notes 229

Index 257

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