Your AI Agents Are About to Get Better Job Descriptions Than Your Managers
Before an AI agent is allowed to act, McKinsey says it needs a named owner, clear limits, an escalation route and autonomy earned in stages. Most managers never get that much clarity. Drawing on McKinsey’s new guide to agentic AI, Gallup’s 2026 data on AI adoption and remote work, and new research on leadership character, Russell Harvey sets out what L&D must build now, and why remote teams will feel the shift first.
The Missing Layer in Leadership Development: Why Individual Coaching Alone Won’t Move Your KPIs
Four converging bodies of evidence, from a 116-study systematic review to Gallup’s 2026 State of the Global Workplace report, tell L&D leaders the same thing: individual leadership capability is necessary but not sufficient. This article makes the evidence-based case for multi-level leadership development and shows, using the freshest and most expensive proof point yet, a 95% failure rate on enterprise AI investment, exactly where the next leadership budget needs to go.