Lead the Humans: Management and Leadership When Your Best Worker Might Be an AI Agent (Business in the Age of Machines A Complete University-Level ... for the AI Era — 36 Volumes, Band 20) - Softcover

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The org chart changed. Nobody sent the memo.

Somewhere between the IT procurement budget and the latest automation rollout, a new kind of workforce arrived — one that doesn't appear in HR records, doesn't have career aspirations, and doesn't need to be motivated. AI agents are doing real work in real organizations right now. And the managers responsible for those organizations were never trained to lead them.

Lead the Humans is the management book the AI era actually requires.

Written for working managers, team leaders, and executives navigating the daily reality of hybrid human-AI teams, this book delivers a practitioner's framework for every dimension of leadership that automation changes — and every dimension it makes more important than ever.

Inside BUS 315, you'll find:

• Why judgment cannot be delegated to an algorithmic recommendation — and how to preserve it
• How to build accountability structures when the AI made the decision
• What organizational culture looks like when AI systems enforce it whether you intended them to or not
• How to develop human talent when AI has consumed the repetitive tasks that used to teach people skills
• How to manage displacement anxiety without lying to your team
• What crisis leadership looks like when the AI is the one failing
• The complete portrait of the irreplaceable leader — and the deliberate path to becoming one

Drawing on organizational behavior, decision science, and the hard-won lessons of practitioners who have led through technological disruption before, Lead the Humans makes the case that the age of AI is not the end of meaningful leadership. It is the environment in which good leadership finally gets to prove its worth.

The managers who understand which functions are irreducibly human — and who cultivate those functions deliberately — will find that AI doesn't diminish their value. It amplifies it.

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