Source: Rachel Karten
The rise of AI-obsessed managers creates real friction in workplace adoption. Enthusiasm without expertise breeds misaligned priorities and performative decision-making. When leaders prioritize appearing innovative over understanding what problems AI solves for their teams, implementation cycles stall, tool sprawl accelerates, and staff burn out defending their relevance. Most enterprise AI projects fail at this gap—between executive hype and ground-level reality—long before the technology itself fails.