The Stress Equation

Motivate the Individual

Even though the whole idea behind writing this book was to shift the focus from the individual to the context and system in which we work, we cannot remove the individual altogether. The organization is, after all, made up of humans—quirky, peculiar, and perfectly human humans.

With the advent of AI, we need to stop referring to “the human factor” as something negative. Moving forward, we need to consider the human factor as an extraordinary asset—something which, in all frankness, should always have been the case. It’s the human factor that will set our organization apart. Our humans will be the ones able to create and produce things that AI will not yet be capable of. We need to be able to release our inner motivation ...