Artificial Intelligence is set to change things beyond recognition. The illiterate of the future will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Today’s leaders need to evolve to become “icons for tomorrow”, and a simple acronym DIPOCA could provide the answer.“The purpose of leadership is to create more leaders.” – John MaxwellHow does this quote sit with today’s VUCA world? Does it chime with our modern stochastic environment. The current context and challenges faced, both in the workplace and elsewhere.I would go further and say as leaders now we should also be “icons for tomorrow”, earning followers through our enduring and unwavering display of care for those we lead – And with a laser focus on wellbeing and welldoing, our leadership must embody qualities such as compassion and discernment which are imparted in a way that manifests a shared humanity.Because these are absolute givens that lock-in goodwill and motivate and enable the people we serve with our leadership to stay ahead of the curve. So, we can all anticipate, flex, and adapt to the myriad challenges and changes coming down the pike in the next few years with A.I.For example, with ChatGTP and Generative Artificial Intelligence (A.I.), Brain and A.I. hook-ups, Machine Learning and LLMs (Large Language Models) all requiring huge amounts of data and massive amounts of our brain power.With all this it would be foolish to lose sight of who we are and how we can differentiate ourselves by what we do at work and at home, because if that happens how will we capitalise on our unique currency as emoting, sentient and sense making human beings?Change Is Always Priced InIn the Autumn of 2023, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak convened an A.I. Safety Summit, at Bletchley Park, England.And what caught my eye was the predictionmade by Elon Musk which went unchallenged in a room full of world experts in Artificial Intelligence. This was that the capacity of A.I. would grow by another magnitude in the next 12 months, and to put that in context that would mean if acceleration on this scale continued we would see:A hundred-fold increase in capacity by 2026.A thousand-fold increase by 2027, &A trillion-fold by 2038.It’s not then a case of if, or even when, but how soon will A.I. vastly exceed human intelligence, and whatever now comes it isn’t going to be what we’ve always had, and it certainly won’t be what we’ve always got.We are now on the precipice of exponential technological advancement and as Stephen Spielberg once said, “Technology can be our best friend, technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives.”And all this at a time when following a global pandemic, there has been a seismic shift in civic values and behaviours, the rise of a toxic social media culture that has many in its thrall, political tensions, economic pain, climate concerns and war.We are no longer living in Kansas; we are now living in the Novascene!There are already over 50 billion connected devices, for a population of just over eight billion.For some time now we have all seen and benefited from how things have got smarter, as the evolution and reach of technology has accelerated in all areas of our lives.The crude word-processing programmes, browsers, and games of our 1990’s desktops, have become 14th generation smart phones, and pocket-size virtual assistant technology like Alexa and Siri.Our individual smartphones and fridges today have more computing power than NASA used in the 1960’s to launch and land its first generation of moon rockets, and they were then operating at the very frontiers of known science.This is the ingenuity of humankind writ large, and there is a powerful, pent-up desire for change which in its wake drives not only more change but increased uncertainty, anxiety, complexity, and feelings of powerlessness, and hopelessness.And the easy answers trap would be to believe that some things are not just unpredictable they are u...

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