The agentic AI era is here, and it will reshape how businesses operate. The question is: Is your leadership team equipped to handle it? How quickly can you equip your leadership team and workforce with the capabilities to harness their power?
This isn’t just about integrating more automation; it’s about leading organizations through a paradigm shift where autonomous AI agents will increasingly define workflows, decision-making and competitive advantage. This necessitates a strategic focus on three core leadership skills, designed not just to future-proof individual careers, but to ensure the enduring resilience, transformation and innovative capacity of your entire enterprise.
1. The “agent architect”: Mastering prompt engineering and strategic oversight
The Challenge: In the traditional IT landscape, leadership defines requirements and teams build to spec. In the Agentic Era, the “spec” becomes a high-level goal, and the “build” is largely executed by autonomous agents. Without effective guidance, these agents can stray, underperform or even introduce new risks.
