High-Tech, High-Wisdom: What does high-wisdom mean in a high-tech world?
"Wisdom is not knowledge, but evolving states of consciousness. Wisdom arises through understanding beyond knowledge that continues to evolve and elevate the state of your consciousness. Wisdom develops with your ability to question, to ask the most potent questions that lead to greater understanding. The wise person is always asking questions". -- Yasuhiko Genku Kimura
I had the pleasure of interviewing Yasuhiko for Briyah's podcast and was intrigued by the realization that despite the abundant amount of knowledge we have access to these days, especially with the advent of technology, leaders do not seem to be developing as much wisdom.
Actually, it seems to be happening quite the contrary. It has become so convenient and productive to delegate decision-making to artificial intelligence, that even the concept of agile leadership seems to be changing. It seems that decision-making has become more about speed than depth.
And how can leaders boost adaptiveness in highly dynamic and complex environments if not by developing greater understanding, instead of jumping to conclusions and "finding" solutions perhaps way too fast, with no awareness whatsoever of potential unintended consequences or consideration for harmful byproducts?
It is amazing how widespread the so called "deep tech" innovation has become! It includes artificial intelligence, as well as cleantech, robotics, blockchain, biotech, healthtech and nanotech, among many others. But are we leveraging the full potential to combine them? Are we truly looking for interconnections, raising awareness about and acting upon interdependencies, or still thinking and working in a siloed-based, fragmented way?
One great example of applying higher wisdom to high tech can be seen in the combination of nanotech with nature-inspired innovation, the so-called biomimicry, to create structural colors , which is created by nanoscale structural surfaces fine enough to reflect specific wavelengths of light. Structural color is created through hyper-specific reflection, not absorption. Perhaps biomimicry will enable us to say goodbye to the global use of toxic chemicals. And what a huge positive ripple effect on health and so many other areas it may lead us to!
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Are you motivated to asking more potent questions and unveiling new layers of understanding? Listen to the episode of The Good, The Bad and The Fun on Leadership Podcast with Yasuhiko Genku Kimura for more reflections on wisdom, and join us on Feb 9-10, 2024, for High-Tech, High-Wisdom: an inspiring 2-day immersive leadership course in Miami-FL with Yasuhiko and other great experts in their fields.
I look forward to co-creating this experience with you for your team to learn and rise together. As we used to say at GE, we all rise! So get in touch !
Adriana Machado
Briyah Institute Founder
Anthropologist of an Ecosocial Transition (Sustainability & Wellbeing) | Transdisciplinary Researcher | Essayist | Creating Meaningful Synergies | Paradoxical Thinker |
11 个月Beautiful quotation about wisdom by Yasuhiko Genku Kimura. Questions and mostly deep questions give us that human need for understanding. 125 years ago Paul Gauguin painted probably his most symbolic painting, the title of which is a series of profound questions. "D'où venons-nous?? Que sommes-nous?? Où allons-nous?? (Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?"These questions and the context of this picture led me to connect the wisdom of indigenous peoples with a possible good future that right now, immersed in this crisis, we cannot find answers to. However, more than 50 women with their projects that I describe in the article give us those possible paths (answers) to where we can wisely go.https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/everything-everywhere-all-once-feminine-multiverse-mart%C3%ADn-gonz%C3%A1lez-m5o7e