«Человеческое преимущество»: почему искусственный интеллект делает навыки межличностного общения единственным значимым конкурентным преимуществом

You've been in that meeting. The one where the AI strategy gets unveiled, the slides are impressive, the efficiency gains are right there in bold, and everyone around the table is nodding. And somewhere in the back of your mind, a question forms that nobody is asking out loud: what about the people? If you're an OD practitioner, a learning leader, or an HR professional, that question is your job. And in the AI age, it has never mattered more. The Human Edge: Why AI Makes People Skills the Only Competitive Advantage That Matters is the book that makes the case you've been trying to make — and gives you the framework to act on it. The paradox of the AI age As machines get better at doing machine-like things, the value of distinctly human capabilities is rising. Emotional depth. Creative spark. Sound judgment. The ability to connect with another person in a way that changes what's possible. These are not soft skills or nice-to-haves. They are the hard skills of the future — and they are exactly what AI cannot do. The organisations winning in the AI age are not the ones with the most sophisticated technology. They're the ones that figured out how to develop their people alongside it. Most haven't figured that out yet. What this book is about Drawing on two decades of organisational development practice and original peer research with OD professionals, HR leaders, and executives navigating AI transformation across industries, Dr. Hilary Curry identifies five core human capabilities that determine whether AI investment creates value or simply creates complexity: Each chapter goes beyond defining these capabilities to showing what it actually takes to develop them at scale — not in a workshop, but in the culture, the leadership, and the systems of an organisation. Who this book is for The Human Edge is written for the people who already sense that something important is being missed in most AI transformation strategies: the OD practitioners, learning leaders, HR professionals, and people function leaders who know that the human side of this change is not downstream of the strategy — it is the strategy. It is also for the senior leaders and executives who are beginning to notice that their AI investments aren't delivering the returns they expected, and are starting to wonder whether the missing ingredient might be human rather than technical. If you've been trying to make the case for why people development belongs at the centre of AI transformation — not bolted on at the end — this is the evidence and the framework you've been looking for. "The future is human — if we have the courage to make it so." — Dr. Hilary Curry