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Navigating the Unknown: Leadership in an Era of Uncertainty

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 Leading through the mists of uncertainty can feel formidable; yet, it unveils a chance to display resilience, adaptability, and visionary leadership. Here are a tapestry of strategies to amplify your prowess in traversing unpredictable realms: Embrace Flexibility and Adaptability Stay Agile: Nurture a malleable work atmosphere that empowers teams to swiftly shift and respond to emerging insights and changing tides. Iterative Planning: Break down long-term visions into smaller, manageable milestones that can be recalibrated as needed, allowing for continual reassessment and evolution. Communicate Transparently Honest Updates: Keep your team apprised of the current landscape, even when the news is less than favorable. Transparency begets trust and ensures collective alignment. Open Dialogue: Foster a space where team members feel emboldened to express their concerns and ideas, enriching insights and uplifting morale. Focus on What You Can Control Identify Priorities: Direct your ene...
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We talked to the tech chief of Elon Musk's new company - here's what he told us

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OpenAI, the new company c0-founded by Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Y Combinator President Sam Altman, took a long time to come to fruition, says CTO Greg Brockman.
But that's okay, because with OpenAI's self-given mission "to make sure, in the long term, AI has potential to benefit the world" and make sure those benefits are "distributed broadly and evenly," taking your time is crucial.
"It's really important that we get it right," he says.
It's important to keep the long haul in mind, Brockman says, because you can't rush good science. With "truly some of the best scientists" on board, he expects that OpenAI will, indeed "unlock the next generation of breakthroughs," but you'll never know where or when those breakthroughs will strike.
"You can't rush it, it's serendipitious," Brockman says.
Brockman, who jumped from payments startup Stripe to become a founding executive at OpenAI, says that the company was born of a "a bunch of conversations" between himself, Musk, Altman, and a bunch of others in the tech scene with an interest in artificial intelligence.
It was only this past January, though, that OpenAI started to go from a theory to a reality, Brockman says.
Over the intervening months, Brockman says, OpenAI's focus was on making sure that it had the right organizational structure and recruited the right people to give it a solid foundation for its future research, over a span of years and decades, not months.
Brockman says that an "inspiration" for the organization of OpenAI was Silicon Valley's legendary Xerox PARC lab, the facility that created many aspects of what we now know as the PC, including the graphical user interface, the mouse, and ethernet networking. The hope is that OpenAI can have a similar impact, having no other purpose than for scientists to do science.
Crucially, too, OpenAI chose to incorporate as a nonprofit - that means it can focus on long-term science, not short-term investor pressure.
"We're really focused on the long term," Brockman says.

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