How Can CEOs Motivate Employees to Participate in AI Innovation?
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Original video: How Can CEOs Motivate Employees to Participate in AI Innovation? · Channel: Harvard Business Review · 01:02 · Watch on YouTube
Topics: Enterprise AI applications, Markets and economy, AI models
Summary
Section titled “Summary”Employers trying to involve employees in training colleagues and AI innovation may find progress stalled because workers lack a meaningful stake in the technology. The speaker argues that incentives should help employees see AI as an asset they can benefit from, rather than as a threat to their jobs. Possible approaches include tying career advancement to how AI helps coworkers and enabling employees to invest in technology and develop intellectual property they can take to future roles.
Key points
Section titled “Key points”- Employers may struggle to get employees to train coworkers and participate in AI innovation.
- A lack of contracts giving employees a real stake in AI innovation may stall progress.
- Employees may fear that AI will reduce head count.
- The speaker suggests treating a coworker powered by AI as an extension of the employee.
- Promotion and career incentives could be tied to how the AI-enabled coworker helps others in the firm.
- Employees could be given a way to invest in the technology.
- Employees may be motivated by being able to develop and retain some of their own intellectual property.
- Portable skills or IP could give employees something valuable to offer if they move to another firm.
Chapters
Section titled “Chapters”| Start | Chapter | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | Why employee participation stalls | The speaker says employers can struggle to involve workers in AI innovation when employees lack a meaningful stake in it. |
| 00:30 | Giving employees a stake in AI | The speaker describes contracts and career incentives that could make AI a benefit to employees rather than a threat to head count. |
| 01:02 | Portable investment and intellectual property | The speaker suggests letting workers invest in technology and develop IP they can take to future roles. |
Quotes
Section titled “Quotes”they’re finding progress is stalled. — 00:00
the contracts are not in place to give employees a real stake in the AI innovation. — 00:30
how can I give them a stake in that physical asset — 00:30
they can take some part of it with them, develop their own IP — 01:02
Concepts and entities
Section titled “Concepts and entities”AI innovation, employee stake, career incentives, intellectual property
Full transcript (original language)
Section titled “Full transcript (original language)”00:00 So, if you were advising a CEO, not in the entertainment industry, but just, you know, any other sector, what would you tell them that they need to be thinking about with regard to to this? >> Many employers that I’ve worked with, just at the point where they’re trying to encourage employees to train their co-workers and to be really participatory in AI innovation, they’re finding progress is stalled. And sort of an explanation that could really lead to fruitful innovation is the contracts are
00:30 not in place to give employees a real stake in the AI innovation. In order for an employee to be really excited and motivated, how can I give them a stake in that physical asset rather than leave them just with the fear that that physical asset then reduces head count. And so, I’ve experimented with a number of different contracts that I think are really executable inside the workplace. Like, one is just merely realizing that the co-worker is like an extension of a person, so that their promotion and their career incentives are tied to how
01:02 that co-worker can help others in the firm. >> Mhm. >> And also, finding a way for that worker to invest in the technology knowing that they can take some part of it with them, develop their own IP as part of the process, so that they want to do an excellent job in the context of one firm knowing that even if they get fired in that role, they’re going to move to another firm and have something really valuable to offer. >> Yeah.