Who gets promoted in a world where leadership is just as ‘automatable’ as accounting? If AI starts running your weekly priorities, forecasts, and even one-on-ones, is ‘being a good manager’ just learning the right commands?

Here’s the shift: The core leverage of the modern leader isn’t in knowing every answer, but in asking better questions—and steering teams through uncertainty AI can’t compute. Harvard Business Review notes that managers who embrace AI don’t become obsolete; they become irreplaceable for their abstraction, empathy, and pattern-spotting at a systems level.

As software eats routine, the future belongs to those who blend ‘AI fluency’ with uniquely human judgment—curating context, reframing problems, and fostering the meta-skills teams actually need to thrive. Leadership is becoming less about command and a lot more about sensemaking in a reality re-written every quarter.

AI won’t make your job easier. But it will make you rethink what a job—and a leader—actually means. Read More