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9 pieces tagged “leadership”.

Briefing

Agentic AI is reshaping spans of control: a manager playbook.

Gartner warns that managers will be held accountable for autonomous agents' behaviour. With 75% of CHROs saying managers are more overwhelmed than ever, the organisational load is about to increase.

aigovernanceleadershiphr
3 min read
AI Implementation

Reading PayPal's $1.5B AI Savings Claim

PayPal is tying $1.5B in claimed savings to AI automation, restructuring and tech-stack modernisation. The number deserves scrutiny — and the framing tells you more about how AI ROI gets reported than about AI ROI itself.

AIROILeadershipOperations
3 min read
AI Implementation

Why AI pilots stall — and the boring middle that makes them work

Most AI pilots don't fail at the model. They fail at the unglamorous integration work everyone tries to skip.

aileadership
3 min read
Briefing

Decision-making by consensus doesn't work in the AI era

Harvard Business Review argues that companies must abandon consensus-based decision-making and redesign around speed, signal detection and clear authority.

decision makingaileadershiporganisational design
2 min read
Briefing

Don't fire your team for AI's potential — build a human-AI operating model first

A Harvard Business Review survey of 1,006 global executives finds AI is already cited as a cause of layoffs. In most cases the cuts are anticipatory, not driven by proven productivity gains.

aigovernanceleadershipworkforce
3 min read
Briefing

Why your AI rollout is failing: the adoption gap between leaders and front-line staff

Gallup's Q4 2025 data shows AI use is rising fast, but leaders use AI far more than front-line staff. A rollout that ignores this gap will stall at the last mile.

aileadershipadoption
2 min read
Briefing

Get off the transformation treadmill

Repeated large-scale transformations exhaust organisations. Harvard Business Review argues the remedy is adaptive systems and incremental redesign rather than another change programme.

transformationchange managementorganisational designleadership
2 min read
Briefing

Connected Intelligence and the workplace: what SMEs should prepare for

Cisco's 2026 workplace forecast predicts people, data and AI agents working side-by-side. For smaller firms, the practical question is what network, identity and workflow changes to put on the roadmap now.

aiinfrastructureleadership
2 min read
Briefing

Building change fitness in the AI era

Harvard Business School identifies 'change fitness' as the key AI-era differentiator — the organisational capacity to metabolise continuous change rather than resist it.

aichange managementleadershiporganisational culture
2 min read

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