Evolution of leadership: rethinking from Ethics the transition from charisma to generativity in the time of Artificial Intelligence
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This article helps to rethink traditional leadership theories in order to complement their propositions as the institutional order and people’s capabilities have been challenged by Artificial Intelligence. Nowadays organizational balance and personal decision-making do not depend anymore on the influence of the leader. As data is embedded in all human structures, a new technocultural society offers the opportunity to reflect through ethics how to integrate within human centrality in its core, the challenge of the digital era. Old narratives and traditional leadership are confronted by a new ruler: the digital context. As digitalization advances, we propose the importance of the relationships between persons to understand how generative ethics is not a creative content, but the true nature of leadership as it does care for the ones that are about to come.
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