[Ailist] AI - an established business strategy/Challenges of "doing" AI

[David J. Snider]

Cheri and Mukul

Cheri, I believe that to truly embrace AI requires some individuals  
and organizations to change their way of being and doing.  I think AI  
is naturally easier for some people than for others.

For folks, including me, who have a strong MBTI preference for  
Thinking to embrace a search for the best requires a real stretch and  
a shift in self-image.   We have to learn to suspend our highly-honed  
negative, analytical problem solving critiques.   That means we have  
to revise our images of personal competencies.  I think embracing AI  
requires those of us with Thinking  preference to nourish and develop  
our Feeling preference much more fully.  And embracing AI calls for  
us to transform our negative, critical capacities into capacities for  
discovering and analyzing the root causes of best behavior.  AI can  
provide a new, transforming context for our analytical (formerly  
negative) critical skills.

I am guessing that folks born with a preference (in MBTI concepts)  
for Feeling find Appreciative Inquiry a much more "natural"  
approach.  I am curious whether any of you have thoughts on whether  
my guess is accurate.

I do think it is possible for those of us with a Thinking preference  
to embrace AI fully, and MBTI psychological theory supports the value  
and possibility of strengthening our ability to act out of our less- 
preferred functions, in this case our Feeling preference.

Another hopeful perspective on our ability to change and embrace AI  
fully is in Sharon Begley's Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a  
New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform  
Ourselves (Ballantine Books).  Begley reports fascinating research  
and conversations on  "neuroplasticity, the brain's capacity to  
change,"  which was the topic of  the 2004 Mind and Life Conference  
hosted by the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India.  The Conference  
centered on recent research on neuroplasticity (and a Buddhist  
perspective) that provides a strong case that we can train our minds  
in ways that change our brains, literally and physically.

So our possibilities for change to embrace AI fully may require a  
"brain change."  The good news is that our minds and our brains are  
up to the challenge!

So then the questions, for me, become, what interests, drives,  
pushes, pulls, leads us to change, personally or as organizations?   
What methods for changing ourselves and our organizations are already  
present?  And we are back to our AI, Positive Psychology, Positive  
Organizational Scholarship and kindred methods and ways of being and  
doing!

I look forward to others' comments on my sense of the challenges of  
"doing" AI for folks with different natural gifts.

Best to you,

David

David J. Snider, Ph.D.
David Snider Associates
   Consultants On Personal and
   Organizational Development
17214 Wildemere
Detroit, MI 48221
O: 313 342 8060
Fax: 313 342 8650
davidsnider at mindspring.com


On Mar 8, 2007, at 7:32 AM, Cheri Torres wrote:
>
>
> Mukul,
>
> My suspicion is that to truly embrace AI requires an individual and an
> organization culture to change their way of being and doing.  . . . .
>
> Cheri
>
> ----