The Leadership Shift AI Forced in 2025
The Leadership Shift AI Forced in 2025
AI adoption didn’t create a technology gap.
It created a leadership gap.
McKinsey’s research makes the pattern clear: the organizations pulling ahead are not the ones “using more AI.” They are the ones redesigning how work gets done and putting senior leaders in charge of governance and accountability.
What widened the performance gap was not algorithms.
It was judgment.
The best leaders didn’t just ask, “Where do we plug in AI?”
They asked:
“What becomes possible once AI removes the bottlenecks we’ve tolerated for years?”
That question forces real decisions:
➤ Who owns the decision, and who escalates?
➤ What must be checked by humans, every time?
➤ Which roles get rebuilt, not just reskilled?
➤ What processes get rewired around judgment, not hype?
AI didn’t replace leaders.
It exposed which ones were thinking clearly.
Where do you see AI clarifying leadership quality the fastest?
🔗Source: Better Succession Planning
