Leadership’s Blind Spot in the Age of AI
When leaders assume that AI is the only intelligence worth investing in, they allow deep thinking, intuition, and creativity to erode.
Otto ScharmerJuly 07, 2026Reading Time: 12 min
Summary:
AI’s computation and pattern-recognition capabilities don’t encompass all intelligence. Leaders must also cultivate organic intelligence as ...
In 1951, philosopher Martin Heidegger told a small audience, “The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.” Few understood him then. Seventy-five years later, the observation has become unavoidable because AI has forced every leader to confront a question about the nature of intelligence and thinking itself. If thinking is nothing but what machines can do, only faster, we have no case: We outsource it to machines. But if thinking is something else — an embodied, attentive activity through which reality reveals itself — then leadership in the age of AI is the...
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