Playing Mental Chesswith AI
Strategic AI thinking for business leaders. The KDA system for values-driven decisions that align professional ambition with personal conviction.
What's Inside
Three frameworks — Values, Alignment, Community — guide you from reactive decisions to a principled leadership practice.
Values-Driven Decisions
The framework starts with values, not tactics. Your core beliefs shape every fork in the road.
Strategic Alignment
Align professional ambition with personal conviction. What matters at work also matters at home.
The Human Algorithm
Decisions that serve self, family, and community — the model that sustains organisations for generations.
5 Key Takeaways
- Apply the KDA framework to values-driven decision-making
- Align professional ambition with personal conviction
- Build a human algorithm — decisions that serve self, family, and community
- Cut through market clutter with clarity and authentic self-practice
- Use strategic frameworks drawn from Stoic, Confucian, and biblical wisdom
What Leaders Say
Forewords from two of Asia-Pacific's most respected business leaders
"Know, Decide, Act is one unique book where AI doesn't work. It is meant for us — Humans. I wish such a book was published 30 years ago."
Sreeram Iyer
Chief Operating Officer, ANZ Bank
31 years in international banking
"Keith's present book is a very valuable yet easy to read life guidebook, in particular for younger generations embarking on a long career forward. But even for older generations, the insights are still universally helpful."
Roger Yeh
Founder & CEO, Raksa Insurance
Founder of a 50-year institution in Indonesia
About Keith B. Carter
Keith B. Carter holds a Cornell MBA and spent twelve years as Associate Professor at NUS School of Computing, where he founded the NUS Fintech Lab and created NUS FinTech SG, a nationally recognised mid-career conversion programme. Before academia, he led global supply chain innovation at Estee Lauder for over a decade, scaling ROIC from 7% to 25% through AI-driven operations. He now delivers AI strategy programs across Asia through Emeritus with clients including Societe Generale, Accenture, and ANZ Bank. His four books span AI productivity, values-driven leadership, and faith-based investing.
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