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What Kotter and ADKAR Teach Leaders About the Real Barrier to AI Adoption
A RAND Corporation study published in 2024, based on interviews with sixty-five data scientists and engineers with at least five years of experience building AI and machine learning systems, set out to understand why so many AI projects fail. The researchers noted that by some estimates, more than 80% of AI projects fail to deliver the business value they were built for, roughly twice the failure rate of ordinary IT projects. The most important detail is what the interviewees
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How Executives Are Using AI to Gain Organizational Visibility
It is May, and somewhere in your organization, something is quietly off. You can feel it in the slightly too-polished status updates, in the meetings that end without anyone owning anything, and in the YTD results that look acceptable on paper but have left you with a nagging sense that you're not seeing the full picture. You set the goals, held the meetings, and asked the right questions. Yet standing at the midpoint of the year, you find yourself running on instinct more th
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The Psychology of Voice: Constructive Dissent as the Core Skill for Fearless Organizations
By Severin Sorensen, Hayden Browning, with contributions from AIWhisperer.org’s PromptSensei and Gemini 2.5 Pro Deep Research, August 16, 2025 Innovation Demands Risky Speech Today’s executives face a leadership paradox. In a world that prizes innovation, agility, and ethical vigilance, the behaviors required to achieve these goals—questioning flawed strategies, flagging risks, or proposing disruptive ideas—carry significant interpersonal risk. Employees often choose silence
Aug 22, 20255 min read
What if Excellence Wasn’t Pushed—But Pulled From Within?
This article, authored by executive coaches Severin Sorensen ★ and Ben Griffin emerges from our professional and intellectual...
Jan 29, 20254 min read
Navigating "Immunity to Change"
The concept of "Immunity to Change" offers groundbreaking insights into why people and organizations often struggle to adapt and evolve despite their best intentions. Developed by Dr. Robert Kegan and Dr. Lisa Lahey, this theory delves into the hidden forces that keep us tethered to the status quo, revealing the underlying assumptions that act as barriers to our growth (Kegan, 2015). Through their extensive research and practical frameworks, Kegan and Lahey guide us through a
Mar 29, 20246 min read
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