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The Tao of Leadership

Harmonizing Technological Innovation and Human Creativity in the AI Era

Jack Myers

Advantage Media Group, 2025

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Media expert Jack Myers offers a philosophical framework for leadership based on Taoist principles. He designed his “FusionFlow” model to help leaders harmonize technological innovation with human creativity. The model outlines five Tao-inspired leadership values: “Harmony, Flexibility, Balance, Simplicity, and Integrity.” Myers urges leaders to cultivate collaboration and provides case studies to illustrate his argument. Though his astute commentary doesn’t cite Tao itself very often, Myers calls on its ideas to fortify AI-era leaders and their employees against creating a “Bizarro” future, in which people are merely wealth-creation tools forever tied to their AI machines.

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Leaders can draw on the Taoist principles of “Harmony, Flexibility, Balance, Simplicity, and Integrity” to balance change and stability.

Taoism offers ancient wisdom for modern leaders. The I Ching, a classic Chinese philosophical text from the 11th century BCE, explains Tao, the unifying natural flow of the universe, as the source of change. Tao means “the way” or “the path.” It explores the interaction of opposing forces, yin and yang, to reflect the dynamics of human endeavors.

This is relevant because leaders who embrace change and those who resist it embody the interplay of opposites. And, whether they embrace change or are wary of it, leaders who want to create “a stable and peaceful” corporate culture and environment must face the challenge of balancing technological advances with human creativity and balancing innovation with organizational solidity.

Leaders who want to build creative, adaptive corporate cultures that harmonize ingenuity and technological prowess must make the most of transformative change. Instead of being daunted by change, they ...

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“Media ecologist” Jack Myers, a corporate advisor on technological and cultural change, lectures on future media theory at the University of Arizona. The author of five books and a TEDWomen talk with more than a million views, he founded MediaVillage.org and MeetingPrep.ai.

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Harmonizing Technological Innovation and Human Creativity in the AI Era

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Leaders can draw on the Taoist principles of “Harmony, Flexibility, Balance, Simplicity, and Integrity” to balance change and stability.

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