In the digital age, leaders must excel at managing their ego, thinking and emotions, their emotional intelligence and their otherness — the ability to connect, engage and relate emotionally with others in positive ways. Women may be more naturally positioned to do so.

In the coming Smart Machine Age (SMA), humans will be needed to do the jobs that technology won’t be able to do well: jobs requiring higher order critical, creative and innovative thinking and emotionally engaging with others.

The concept of being smart enters our lives early—as soon as a parent or loved one praises us by saying, “Oh, you’re so smart!” As we proceed through school, smart means getting high test scores, making fewer mistakes, and giving fewer wrong answers than other students.