HBR: Middle managers will make or break enterprise AI adoption
rseroter · x · 2026-09-04
A Harvard Business Review article argues the most common failure point for generative AI initiatives is neither the boardroom nor vendor selection, but middle managers who translate executive ambition into everyday behavior. Author Gleb Tsipursky outlines five distinct middle-manager response patterns and strategies to win them over — they can be an organization's greatest accelerant or most obstinate roadblock to AI adoption at scale.
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