Culture eats strategy for breakfast..and snacks on innovation, collaboration, and AI too.
In organizations, especially large ones, many things are hard: innovation, driving product delight, and even basic collaboration. Adopting AI is no exception.
While I’ve focused on helping teams improve these areas, I’ve spent less time analyzing why they’re so difficult to begin with.
Listening to Jeremy Utley and Henrik Werdelin's podcast with Ethan Mollick, a Wharton professor and “Accidental AI Expert” shed some light on this for me.
When asked about getting people to use AI in organizations, Ethan said, “It has to be a CULTURAL thing….[In] competitive cultures, people don't share anyway, right?”
Competitive cultures often create reluctance to share information, unhealthy rivalries, and poor collaboration. Employees fear being replaced, leading to hoarding of information and resistance to sharing how they obtained it - stopping AI adoption in its tracks.
Ethan also noted, “if you’ve built a cooperative learning culture…everyone’s willing to share” which he sees in nonprofits, startups, and mission driven organizations.
These are the organizations adopting AI more quickly as they’re focused on their raison d'être and do whatever it takes to achieve it.
#CultureIsHungry #CollaborativeCultureRules #innovation #AI
Looking forward to this keynote session, Polina Dimitrova!