The AI Wedge
Why People Are Moving Faster Than Institutions, and What Leaders Must Build Next
People are already finding new ways to work with AI. The institutions around them are moving more slowly. This book explores the gap between those two speeds and what responsible leaders can do about it.
The idea behind the book
A first draft becomes a workflow. An individual experiment becomes a dependency. Something that looks like personal productivity can quietly become an institutional obligation.
The AI Wedge examines the separation between what employees can now attempt using AI and the systems that organizations have in place to govern, support, and sustain that activity.
The challenge is not simply whether to adopt AI. It is how to make new work visible, understand its consequences, assign ownership, and build a responsible path forward.
What readers will gain
An actionable way to recognize AI-driven changes at work and respond with more clarity.
See the hidden gap
Understand why employees can experiment with AI faster than organizations can establish the systems to support their work.
Make the work visible
Use the Wedge Map to surface where individual initiative, workflows, decision rights, and institutional support diverge.
Choose how to respond
Explore the Four Lanes as a way to assess what to encourage, support, govern, or redesign.
Turn awareness into action
Use the Ninety-Day Closure to frame a practical path from unmanaged experimentation toward sustained organizational capability.
Who it is for
Leaders responsible for AI adoption, managers redesigning work, technology and governance teams, and professionals who see their own capabilities evolving faster than company processes.
A companion perspective
The AI Dichotomy explores the distance between AI capability, perception, and consequence. The AI Wedge turns to the institutional gap that emerges as individuals put AI to work.
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