Middle managers are absorbing the cost of AI adoption
Harvard Business School research (18 interviews across two consulting firms) found senior leaders capturing AI's strategic upside while middle managers absorb new work — validating AI outputs, catching errors, coaching teams — without added support or relief from existing delivery pressure.
Why it matters
Read at Harvard Business Review Middle-management capacity, not model capability, is emerging as the real adoption bottleneck.
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