AI doesn't lead. Leaders do.

Most books on AI tell you what the technology can do.

This one asks what you need to become.

I just finished AI-Powered Leadership by Silberman, Maltzmann, Abramo, and Kanabar - and what struck me wasn't the frameworks. It was the honest premise beneath them: that the biggest barrier to AI adoption in organizations isn't the algorithm. It's the leader.

After 29 years running operations across Asia Pacific with Chevron, and now advising C-suite executives on AI integration through RXS Meta, I've seen this play out in real time.

The leaders who struggle with AI aren't the ones who lack technical literacy.

They're the ones who haven't decided who they are in a world where the machine can outthink them on execution but still needs a human to decide why it matters.

That's not a technology problem. That's a leadership problem.

The synergy the book describes, human expertise and AI capability only works when the human brings something irreplaceable: judgment, values, and purpose.

AI doesn't lead. Leaders do.

What's the one leadership competency you think AI will never replace?