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Why is the term “artificial leadership” not used in the literature?

There are two terms that were invented almost 40 years ago: artificial management and artificial leadership. I wrote about the first one a few days ago. The second – artificial leadership – is even more puzzling. When you type such a phrase into the Web of Science database, these words almost never appear side by side. We have various combinations of these words, e.g. LEADERSHIP IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TIME, LEADERSHIP IN THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ERA, but artificial leadership in the

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When did the term “artificial management” first appear?

Are you familiar with this quote? “Artificial management by computers and expert systems–can perform pre-established, well-defined managerial tasks. Many technical and procedural decisions are best made by artificial managers. And what of the human managers? They are free to devote more time and energy to ambiguous, integrative areas such as strategy.” These sentences come from an article by E. Geisler, who in 1986 began a discussion on whether a robot manager could replace a human manager. See this article: Geisler,

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Will artificial managers be everywhere?

I started working on the artificial manager, which I call the robot manager, in 2007. The idea came when, during business training, I had the opportunity to meet people running similar companies, and some of them were doing well, and others were doing badly. Some complained about their employees, others praised them. Seemingly similar companies, operating in the same industries, had completely different results. I was then reminded of Peter Drucker’s famous saying, which, somewhat paraphrased, reads “There are no

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Have you seen the amazing humanoid robots that don’t look like humans at all, but perform the same actions?

Lately, I’ve been believing more and more that an artificial manager will look like a human, move like a human, and maybe one day you won’t be able to distinguish it from your former boss at all. When I conducted experiments with students in 2021, led by an artificial manager built from my TransistorsHead.com system, the manager on the screen looked like the one in Figure 1. Figure 1. TransistorsHead.com’s artificial manager interface In Figure 1, in the right left

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How to measure a manager’s leadership styles with management tools? Part 3

In the previous parts, I described what concepts and divisions of management styles we took into account and why. So what results did we get? Let me remind you of the two hypotheses we posed before the study: We conducted the study on June 29-30, 2021 and lasted 36 hours. The group of observation participants consisted of 6 2nd degree students from the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, working in two equal virtual teams, each with a designated team

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