This week, MIT research scientist Andrew McAfee explores how emerging tech companies outpace legacy organizations by embracing key behaviors that drive agility and innovation. McAfee highlights the rejection of hierarchical decision-making, the prioritization of data-driven processes, and the importance of fostering innovation and experimentation to adapt in an AI-driven future. Read the summary.
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Andrew McAfee
Andrew McAfee (@amcafee) studies how technological progress changes the world. He is a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management, co-founder and co-director of MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy, and the inaugural Visiting Fellow in Google’s Technology and Society group. His most recent book is The Geek Way. His previous books include More from Less and, with Erik Brynjolfsson, The Second Machine Age. He and Brynjolfsson are the only people named to both the Thinkers50 list of the world’s top management thinkers and the Politico 50 group of people transforming American politics.
McAfee was educated at MIT and Harvard and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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