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AI is the defining leadership challenge of our time. The first thing it asks of you isn’t adoption, or governance. It’s a position. Here’s mine. By Sue Cunningham, Founder & Principal Advisor - The Uncertainty Lab People ask me what I think about AI all the time. And for a long time, I couldn’t give them a clean answer - which is a strange thing to admit, given it’s the thing I advise on. But the honest truth is that a clear position on AI takes a while to form. You have to u

Why experienced professionals struggle with AI, even when they’re using it AI is reshaping work. That’s no longer debatable. What is still poorly understood - and rarely discussed - is what’s actually stopping experienced professionals from engaging with it. The dominant narrative says it’s a skills problem. Train people. Upskill them. Run workshops on prompt engineering. But what if the biggest barrier to AI adoption for experienced professionals isn’t technical at all? The

It's a permanent shift — and we need to learn how to live inside it. We are no longer moving through occasional disruption. We are now living inside sustained uncertainty – on an ongoing basis. This is not a hypothesis. It is what the latest evidence shows. Heading into 2026, uncertainty itself — not the pace of AI adoption, not geopolitical instability, not shifting trade policy — was the number one economic concern for US CEOs. Forty-three percent ranked it as their top thr