Many boards and executive teams are asking: Where can AI agents be deployed?

But: at every level of the hierarchy, information gets smoothed, weighted, positioned.

The organization answers with numbers. 25%. 30%. 40%.

But these numbers measure nothing.

They emerge from motives, fears, and what people believe they can say without it falling back on them.

At every level of the hierarchy, information gets smoothed, weighted, positioned.

What arrives at the top is rarely reality. It is an average of interests.

And anyone who negotiates the future of work via averages is not negotiating. They are calculating. Just not with the people.

Whoever mistakes the numbers at the top for reality governs the power structure — not the business. In the video I show where the lever sits.

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