The leaders who will matter most in the next decade are not those who understand AI best, but those who understand people best — and use AI to serve them.
A few years ago I watched a manager I respect make a call in nine seconds that a model could have made in nine milliseconds — and made better. He got it wrong; the machine would have got it right. And yet every person in that room would have followed him off a cliff, and not one of them would follow the model across the street. I have not stopped thinking about that gap. It is exactly where leadership now lives.