HBR Guide to Generative AI for Managers
Elisa Farri and Gabriele Rosani
Harvard Business Review Press (February 2025)
How well-prepared is your organization to compete in a “humanAIzed” fiuture?
This is another volume in one of the several series of anthologies of HBR articles previously published by Harvard Business Review Press. The to-authors — Elisa Farri and Gabriele Rosani — focus on HIGH-IMPACT MANAGEMENT OF GENERATIVE AI.
If you were to purchase each of the twenty-two chapters s as a reprint, the total cost would be about $200. The cost of this volume if purchased from Amazon is only $16.64. That’s not a bargain. That’s a steal.
Elisa Farri and Gabriele Rosani provide an abundance of information, insights, and counsel that will help managers to accelerate their personal growth as well as their professional development. More specifically, they examine these separate but interdependent areas:
SECTION ONE: The Essentials of Generative AI-Enabled Management (Chapters 1-4)
o How machines are evolving from tools to collaborators
o Generatie AI as a co-pilot and co-thinker
o A new mindset that managers should master
o 35 managerial tasks that Generative AI can enhance
SECTION TWO: Self-Management with Gen AI (Chapters 5-9)
o Self-management tasks that are enhanced by Generative AI
o Generative AI for personal productivity that can be measured
o Generative AI for content generation
o Generative AI for personal growth
o Generative AI for persuasive communication
SECTION THREE: Team-Management with Gen AI (Chapters 10-14)
o Team-management tasks that are enhanced by Generative AI
o Generative AI for team operational support
o Generative AI for team creativity support
o Generative AI for leading teams
o Generative AI for solving complex problems
SECTION FOUR: Business-Management with Gen AI (15-19)
o Businss managerment tasks that are ernhanced by Generative AI
o Generative AI for data analysis support
o Generative AI for customer insights
o Generative AI for businss case development
o Generative AI for strategic decision-making
SECTION FIVE: Change Management with Gen AI (20-22)
o Change management tasks that are enhanced with Generative AI
o Generative AI for transformation support
o Generative AI for leading change
EPILOGUE Beyond Tasks: Generative AI’s impact on Ways of Working
Managers always play an essential role in establishng and strengthening supprt for Generative AI initiatives within the given workplace culture at all levels and in all areas of operation.
If you are looking for world-class material that offers cutting-edge thinking on the subject of HOW TO DERIVE THE GREATEST VALUE FROM GENERATIVE AI…and from a single source…look no further.
I commend Elisa Farri, Gabriele Rosani, and their HBR editors on this Guide. Its potential value is incuculable. Bravo!
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