FQ™ in the Age of AI: Teaching Machines How to Fail For centuries, failure has been humanity’s toughest but most essential teacher. It’s how we adapt, innovate, and lead. That’s the premise of Failure Intelligence™ (FQ™): decoding setbacks and transforming them into strength. And today, failure is no longer exclusively a human phenomenon. It’s also the fuel of artificial intelligence. Algorithms are trained by trial and error. Machine learning systems evolve by being wrong, corrected, and improved at scale. The future of leadership means orchestrating two loops of failure at once: 1️⃣ The Human Loop, where leaders and teams metabolize mistakes into learning. 2️⃣ The Machine Loop, where algorithms advance through error correction. When these loops are misaligned, cultures fracture. Leaders punish human missteps while celebrating “fail fast” in tech. Or they blindly trust AI while holding employees to impossible standards of perfection. The result: distrust, stagnation, and lost innovation. ❇️ The leadership mandate is shifting: design for intelligent failure. High-FQ™ leaders will: 1️⃣ Normalize dual learning between humans and machines. 2️⃣ Engineer explainability so both people and AI can articulate why decisions fail. 3️⃣ Balance machine speed with human psychological safety. 4️⃣ Use failures as trust signals by showing transparent correction. 🚨 This is urgent. McKinsey reports that over half of companies use generative AI in at least one functional business unit; although concurrently, Edelman shows trust in institutions has fallen to historic lows. 🌟 Hidden machine errors amplify systemic flaws. Punished human errors suffocate creativity. Only organizations that align both loops of failure will turn disruption into durable growth. 💡 The future of leadership in the FQ™ era isn't going to be about preventing mistakes. It will be about orchestrating them; making failure the connective tissue between human judgment and machine intelligence. ❇️ Humans need failure to grow. Machines need failure to learn. 🌟 Leaders who thrive will be those who transform both into trust and capability. #FailureIntelligence #Leadership #AI #SyntheticTrust #FutureOfWork
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When AI learns from AI, originality erodes. To prevent it, we humans need to guide machines. It's about humans + AI vs noise 🫡, right?
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Very hard hitting… We see it happening everyday.. From industry to academia. The point isn’t Human versus AI - the point is the loss of creativity, opinion, influence and the fact that narratives are snowballing by and through AI. In this era of hyper communication, I think it’s important to remember, that AI may create volume but Humans create voice. In this world of trending content, the algorithm may amplify, but for it to have any meaning, it needs to resonate with the soul. Lets not trade that. #artificialintelligence #rolewithasoul #futureofwork
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This is brilliant, reframing failure as a learning lool is such a timely perspective. I've got some ideas brewing, would love to connect and discuss, Jonscott Turco