Aug 24 • Mountains of Influence
🌍 Global Leadership & Organizational Development: This Week's Update
💎 What Happened?
The AI conversation inside organizations is exposing a leadership-development gap. New reports that while 99% of surveyed CHROs consider AI important to organizational strategy, 50% are not confident that managers can effectively guide employees' AI use; meanwhile, the 2026 finds that AI adoption is often outpacing strategy, training, and governance.
❔ Why It Matters
- Organizations can purchase technology much faster than they can develop leaders capable of integrating it.
- Managers increasingly sit at the intersection of strategy, employee trust, AI governance, and workforce development.
- Automation may also remove some of the traditional entry-level work through which future leaders historically developed judgment and expertise.
🔋 Power Shift
- Power is shifting toward organizations that can build leadership capability as quickly as they build technological capability.
💎 Leader Takeaway
AI implementation is becoming a leadership pipeline issue. Leaders should intentionally preserve opportunities for emerging talent to practice judgment, solve problems, and develop expertise even when technology can perform the underlying task.
—> Community Question
If AI removes many of the experiences that traditionally developed future leaders, how should organizations redesign the leadership pipeline?
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🌍 Global Leadership & Organizational Development: This Week's Update
