Restoring the Soul of Business

Staying Human in the Age of Data

De: Rishad Tobaccowala

Narrado por: Tom Parks

How to keep your intuition and human instinct intact in our current technological era.

Businesses are constantly moving into uncharted territory as they determine how to navigate an increasingly digital future effectively. But the startling and often overlooked truth is that the promise of digital transformation can only be realized when we find a way to balance it with our irreplaceable humanity.

In Restoring the Soul of Business, business leader Rishad Tobaccowala will teach you how to establish the proper balance between human creativity and data-driven insights that can lead to increased revenue, profitability, retention—and even joy—in your career and business.

You’ll learn how to:

• Understand the benefit that can be realized by combining emotion and data, human and machine, analog and digital.
• Spot the warning signs of data-blinded companies who are failing to innovate well.
• Explore how organizations of various sizes and industries have successfully reoriented their thinking on how to fuse technology and humanity.
• Gain skills to become an expert in connections critical to growth and success, including the connection between being creative and using technology.

Restoring the Soul of Business provides practical tools and techniques that every organization should implement and challenges you to move forward with the kind of balance that capitalizes transformation and produces one great success after another.

In the end, it’s the people that matter, and companies must never forget the soul that drives them.

Reseñas de la Crítica

'A brilliant synthesis by Rishad on how to bring balance to human elements and technology usage in managing a modern enterprise. A must-read for everyone for both personal and professional development and satisfaction.' --Alok Choudhary, Henry and Isabelle Dever Professor, EECS Department; Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

'A fantastic guide for leading and succeeding in today's world, Rishad eloquently demonstrates the exponential power in combining math and human connection and provides useful ways to do so.' --Norman de Greve, Chief Marketing Officer, CVS Health

'This is a book of wisdom. A book that should be passed down with compassion, care, and grace from CEOs to their teams and from parents to their children. It is not a business book; it is a book full of hope and optimism about the beauty and possibility of the future--tethered to technology but anchored in the 'Soul' with empathy and compassion. I loved this book, and am so grateful that Rishad chose to share his brilliance and insights with all of us.' --Mark Achler, Managing Director, MATH Venture Partners

'We are living in extraordinary times. While our digitally connected world creates remarkable opportunities for businesses, employees are facing tremendous stress from a wide range of sources--a contentious global political climate, concern for the environment, regular reports of mass shootings and natural disasters, the impact of economic inequality, and how the emergence of artificial intelligence will impact our lives and livelihoods, to name just a few. In an era of such broad-based disruption, Rishad Tobaccowala's Restoring the Soul of Business and its higher-order thinking on improving the balance of our business communities, enhancing the humanity and generosity of our workplaces, and prioritizing EQ over data in decision-making makes this book essential reading for today's executives.' --David Carey, Chairman, Hearst Magazines

'You know that person who seems to always be ahead of the curve? The one who chooses to zig while zagging is obviously the thing to do? But then, zigging DOES become the thing? What makes Rishad a special man is that he was that person thirty years ago, and he has only gotten better. So, READ THE BOOK, and learn from THAT guy!' --Tom Collinger, Executive Director, Medill IMC Spiegel Digital and amp; Database Research Center, Northwestern University

Fantastic Read

Grateful to Rishad Tobaccowala for having shared his brilliant knowledge & observations. Congratulations and thank you!!

Read before AI transformer into a fairytale

We are taught life is short but we dismiss that possibility. As we chronicle our lives by technology and hardware improvements we should not forget to keep our focus on the software... love and passion that truly makes us a worthy being to ourselves and humanity.

The best business book I've read this year

Probably the 10th book on business I have read this year and this is by far the most impactful read to date. Rishad has a way of distilling the information, using analogous examples and then recapping everything at the end of the chapter. I would highly recommend!

When story meets spreadsheet

This was a great book about the importance of both embracing technology and what makes us human- deep connections, empathy, etc. The winners of the next 20 years will be the companies that do both!

Love it!

everyone talks about the future with machine learning and AI.. Rishad reminds us the importance of human first approach to the future. Great book.