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Yes! I said it. Most organisations don’t have an AI problem.

They have a change problem.

The technology is the easy part. You buy the tool (or you build a custom one, if you can afford it), you run the pilot, you announce the rollout. Done.

What nobody puts in the budget is the messy, uncomfortable, deeply human work that has to happen before any of that actually lands.

The manager who’s been doing things the same way for 12 years. The team that’s terrified but too professional to say so. The senior leader who signed off on the transformation strategy but hasn’t changed a single thing about how they personally work.

I’ve been in those rooms. And I can tell you, no AI tool fixes that.

What fixes it is leadership. Specifically, the kind that can sit with uncertainty, communicate through ambiguity, and bring people along on a journey whose destination is still being worked out in real time.

That is a rare skill. And right now, every organisation in the world needs it desperately and is dramatically underinvesting in it.

We keep asking “how do we keep up with AI?” Maybe the better question is, “how do we lead our people through a world that won’t stop changing?”

Because the organisations that figure that out? They won’t just survive this moment. They’ll define it.

What do you think? Is your organisation investing in the right thing? Or are we all just buying tools and hoping for the best?