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AI Empowerment Is a Test of Leadership, Not the Workforce

Your people are already using AI — many of them in secret, because no one gave them permission to do it openly. The adoption problem was never theirs. Here's what the data says, and what it actually takes to lead through this.

Derek Gilbert

Jun 19, 2026
7 min read

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