When AI Disruption Never Ends
AI has turned disruption into a permanent condition. Leaders must strategically manage the organizational fatigue that follows.
Rory McDonald and Will DroverSeptember 10, 2026Reading Time: 9 min
Summary:
AI has turned disruption into a permanent condition, with technologies changing too fast for employees to keep up. Traditional change ...
A vice president of product opens her laptop on a Monday morning to find that the AI model her team had worked with for the past six weeks to build a customer workflow has been leapfrogged by a cheaper, faster alternative. Again. Her Slack feed is blowing up with links to the announcement. The CEO has already forwarded an article about what a competitor is doing with the new tool, with the subject line “FYI.” She hasn’t finished rolling out the last integration, and now she’s wondering whether to scrap it. She is not resistant to AI....
Copyright of this story solely belongs to sloanreview.mit.edu. To see the full text click HERE
