The Impact Initiative
A 6-month AI leadership journey for the leaders who shape what comes next. Read deeply, think critically, lead boldly.
From foundations to your own AI leadership project
Essays, papers, lectures, and books from leading thinkers
Build your AI leadership voice and bring it to your team
The Landscape
Understanding where we are
We begin with two foundational perspectives: a legendary AI researcher's hard-won lesson about what actually works in AI, and a practical look at why management is about to become a superpower in an AI-powered world.
The Bitter Lesson
Rich Sutton
A brief, paradigm-shifting essay from one of AI's founding researchers. Sutton argues that the biggest lesson from 70 years of AI research is that general methods leveraging computation win over human-designed approaches — every single time.
Why Management Is Becoming an AI Superpower
Ethan Mollick
Mollick makes the case that managers — not engineers — may be the biggest beneficiaries of AI. The skills that matter most (delegation, quality control, orchestration) are exactly what AI demands.