Position Paper

Human in the Lead

Many companies pay people to use AI. Smart ones pay for the human skills that make AI use worth anything.

Ernst & Young put $100 million behind judgment, adaptability, and innovation. KPMG and PwC rebuilt training around critical thinking. Deloitte found technology-first organizations are 1.6 times more likely to miss out on AI returns that beat expectations.

The market has reached its verdict: technology isn’t the scarce thing. Critical thinking is.

In Human in the Lead, Joe McCormack argues that critical thinking is invisible until it’s expressed in writing or speech, which makes your team’s writing and speaking the only evidence that judgment was applied at all.

19 pages. What to require of your people when they use AI, and the one skill nobody is funding.