Ron Gutman is an inventor and entrepreneur who is also the Intrivo Co-CEO and Founder. He has created and launched over 140 healthcare inventions, including some of the most successful products in their respective fields. He has been involved in health care as a clinician, researcher and inventor.
How to survive through this Times of Exponential Change:
According to Ron Gutman, the era of Exponential Change has just started, and the new technology will profoundly impact almost everything. This is why leaders must adapt to the recent period and help their teams understand how this technological change can be used beneficially. The year 2020 was occasioned by advanced technology and the ability of artificial intelligence to perform most human tasks, and it becomes clear that this change is real.
According to Gutman, “Leaders must be ready to adopt these changes and move their teams toward a path of success”. The three dimensions of change (3D) brought about by COVID-19, perpetual, pervasive and exponential, significantly impact businesses and individuals; the best leaders must understand what they entail. According to Ron Gutman: “The lead must be able to study these dimensions of change and balance them with the things that we already know”.
Successful leaders must shift from a command-and-control leadership style to a new “optimizing” leadership style. According to Ron Gutman, this allows them to make better decisions by considering an increasingly accurate picture of the whole team and its work rather than focusing strictly on their own role.
Leaders will have to learn how to encourage and maximize team members to take full advantage of the opportunities that these changes will bring. Ron Gutman said it is essential to move from stabilizing the current-state business models to predictive models. Leaders should use technology and data more wisely to make better decisions.