Effective Leadership in Times of Change: What Leaders Must Master in the AI Era
We are living through a leadership inflection point unlike anything the world of business has seen before. For decades, leaders earned authority through expertise, simply because they knew more, had seen more, and carried the weight of experience. Knowledge was power, and seniority was the currency of decision-making. But in a world where AI retrieves, analyses, predicts, and contextualises information faster than any human can, expertise is no longer the leader's edge. Today, effective leadership in times of change requires something far more nuanced, far more human, and infinitely difficult to automate. The leaders who will remain relevant and influential are not the ones who know the most. They are the ones who can discern, orient, stabilise, and create meaning in environments where AI handles tasks once defined by management. We are living in an era that demands a fundamental shift. A shift from being the most knowledgeable person in the room to being the most situationa...