Leadership Unlocked · 2026-05-27 · 22 min
Dusty goes solo for the one-year anniversary to tackle one of the biggest misconceptions leaders are facing in the age of AI - that better tools automatically create better organizations. Drawing from conversations with CEOs, research from McKinsey and BCG, and years of leadership coaching, he argues that AI doesn’t replace the fundamentals of leadership; it ruthlessly amplifies whatever leadership chain already exists underneath it. Dusty breaks down how unclear priorities, weak alignment, and poor execution become exponentially more dangerous when multiplied by AI systems that can generate massive amounts of polished but directionless output at machine speed. He revisits his “clarity → alignment → execution” framework, showing how most execution problems are actually upstream leadership failures that AI simply exposes faster, while organizations with strong leadership foundations are seeing extraordinary acceleration instead of chaos.
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