AI Leadership Reference Guide

The full map of AI-Driven Enterprise leadership, on five pages that live on your desk.

A desk reference for board members and executives leading the transition to the AI-Driven Enterprise: the mental models, metrics, and governance structures in one place. Drawn from No One Works Here (Wiley, August 2026) and the AIDE Institute's benchmarking work.

What you'll get

• Run on System Time: the mental model that replaces the 2,080-hour human year with the 8,760-hour agent year, plus the five latencies (decision, execution, feedback, coordination, learning) that replace headcount as your primary operational metric.
• Track the metrics that matter: ten transformation metrics across short-term and long-term ROI, from cost avoidance and employee hours reclaimed to revenue per node, with a goal-setting cadence built for capacity that grows every quarter.
• Build literacy and fluency at every tier: what boards, executives, managers, and employees each need to know versus what they need to be able to do, plus the culture markers that make adoption stick.
• Govern the risks before they govern you: model inventories, decision authority matrices, audit trails, token economics, AI P&L, and the hiring and upskilling moves that keep your talent ahead of the transition.
• See the Complete Leadership Landscape: all 18 components from strategy to cybersecurity, each with the question to ask and the metrics to track, closing with the 24-item AIDE Leader's Checklist to run as a quarterly self-assessment.