Bill Duane and Associates LLC
Working at the Intersection of Organizational Effectiveness, Individual Performance and the Future
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The world needs innovation now more than ever. The good news is that you can train yourself to be a better innovator. Join former Google Engineering Executive and Superintendent of Well-being Bill Duane as he dives deep with innovators from business, science, social change and technology on the internal innovation that unlocks external innovation.
What if care was demonstrated to be a key driver of intelligence across animals, humans and even machines?
Could a system of infinite care as outlined in the Buddhist concept of a Bodhisattva provide a testable method for increasing intelligence in humans and AI and beyond?
COVID, anxiety, performance and seeing a path through crisis to better systems
During crisis, operational and personal resilience require innovative thinking and interpersonal cohesion. CNBC’s Sharon Epperson speaks with Harvard psychologist Luana Marques and former Google performance guru Bill Duane to break down the science and offer up solutions to mitigate anxiety.
The relationship between humans and technology has attracted increasing attention with the advent of ever stronger models of artificial intelligence. Humans and technology are intertwined within multiple autopoietic loops of stress, care, and intelligence. This paper suggests that technology should not be seen as a mere tool serving humans’ needs, but rather as a partner in a rich relationship with humans. Our model for understanding autopoietic systems applies equally to biological, technological, and hybrid systems.
Even before the pandemic struck, remote work was accelerating in the U.S. But the next few months will be a very strange test of our white-collar future.
Hundreds of millions of people around the world were suffering from common mental health issues including anxiety and depression before Covid-19, and the scale of the health-care crisis has escalated as a result of the pandemic. But demand for mental health services is far outstripping the available supply of trained professionals. Machines are rising to the challenge as a first point of contact for struggling individuals, but just how far can the robot brain go in treating the mind of the human individual?
Bill Duane and Associates
Consulting, Keynotes and Workshops
The world is increasingly chaotic and unpredictable, yet requires strategic vision, constant innovation and interpersonal cohesion in order to be both effective and happy. The bad news is we’re wired to stress out early and often, which gets in in the way of way of being effective and happy. The good news is there are concrete things you can do at the individual and organizational levels to be more skillful. Informed by neuroscience, complexity theory, mindfulness and 12 years of being an executive at Google, we can tell you about them.
Strategy and Implementation Lead at the Center for the Study of Apparent Selves
Distilling Synergistic Value between Buddhism and AI
The ancient practices and philosophy of Buddhist monastics may seem to have little relation to the current headlines about the promises and perils of artificial intelligence. However, ego-less compassion, non-discursive intelligence, and other such key Buddhist concepts hold—when rigorously unpacked, translated and made applicable to real world AI concerns—the promise of addressing key AI issues, such as moral decisions, unexpected consequences, human flourishing and exploring the similarities and differences between human and machine intelligences.
Fellowship Advisor At Just Economy Institute
RSF fellows are financial activists leveraging capital as a tool for positive change. Bill advises RSF Fellows on:
- Career envisioning and implementation
- Personal development
- Managing audacious goals and burnout
- Effective teams and organizations
- Creating organizational culture
- Fostering innovation and social change
Advisor at Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute
SIYLI was born at Google to take the world renowned Search Inside Yourself mindfulness based emotional intelligence class to the world. Over 20,000 people have taken the SIY program in more than 100 cities.
