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Biz prof. Founder: Artful Intelligence Institute. đź“šThinking Like A Human: The Power of Your Mind in the Age of AI. Blog: Managing with Meaning @PsychToday

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David Weitzner is a writer, teacher, and consultant, working to uncover the best of what makes us human. He researches the science of artful thinking and creative co-creation, as well as strategies for bettering our ethical, spiritual, and business decision-making.

Dr. Weitzner is also an associate professor of management at York University, and writes the Managing with Meaning blog for Psychology Today, offering strategies for a more human-centric approach to business. David has presented as …

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3 Reasons to Choose Curiosity Over Control

3 Reasons to Choose Curiosity Over Control

Some corporate leaders discourage curiosity in the workplace because of a relevance bias or a fear in giving …

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Management is so passé - it's co-creation that workers are demanding

Management is so passé - it's co-creation that workers are demanding

It's time for business, political and organizational leaders to give up on "management." Workers today don't …

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After a year of Zoom meetings, we'll need to rebuild trust through eye contact

After a year of Zoom meetings, we'll need to rebuild trust through eye contact

The pandemic has exacerbated an already troubling trust deficit across political, economic and demographic di…

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How to Nurture Your Creative Mindset Like a Rock Star

How to Nurture Your Creative Mindset Like a Rock Star

The willingness to be vulnerable, a key trait of artists, can help us champion more innovative and creative m…

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Why 'Allyship' Is Not a Jewish Virtue

Why 'Allyship' Is Not a Jewish Virtue

The rules of allyship, if widely followed, would actually give rise to a rather unattractive and uncooperativ…

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Meaningful Work Is More Than Mindful

Meaningful Work Is More Than Mindful

Meaningful work is so important to the vast majority of people that they would pay a financial price for the …

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How to Throw the Right Kind of Party

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By David Weitzner Verified
| Psychology Today Verified
Our productivity, creativity, and ability to build depend on having spaces to gather in. Creativity partially emerges from how we perceive old and new environments. Parties can sync brain waves, trigger serendipitous relationships, and allow happy accidents to happen. Source: Maor Attias/Pexels It’s been exactly one year since my book Thinking Like a Human: The Power of Your Mind in the Age of AI was released.
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AI Doom Is Not Our Inevitable Future

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By David Weitzner Verified, Tyler Woods Verified
| Psychology Today Verified
Too many leaders are expressing hopelessness and fear about where the age of AI is taking us. Inevitability is sold by discounting active human agency and the constraints of social structure. We can disrupt prediction, quantification, and social engineering with artful thinking. I’ve been seeing and hearing far too many expressions of hopelessness and fear about where the age of artificial intelligence is taking us.
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Uncomfortable About Creative Risks? Don’t Face It Alone

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By David Weitzner Verified, Devon Frye Verified
| Psychology Today Verified
Source: Alana Weitzner/Used with permission Whenever I start to feel particularly worried about emerging cultural and political shifts, I invite inspiring creative innovators to gather and talk things out. Sitting alone, in front of my computer, and questioning a chatbot won’t help move me forward. AI can only generate what’s already been thought, so as a tool, it’s fairly useless in this context. And creative breakthroughs are more likely to happen in social settings.
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