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title: "The Leadership Role AI Is Creating (and Why Most Leaders Aren’t Ready for It)"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-leadership-role-ai-is-creating-and-why-most-leaders-aren-t-ready-for-it--c7oe1qwow
source_url: https://itrevolution.com/articles/the-leadership-role-ai-is-creating-and-why-most-leaders-arent-ready-for-it
type: article
source: "IT Revolution"
published: 2026-07-20T05:09:04.181Z
updated: 2026-07-20T05:09:25.647Z
tags: ["ai-agents", "leadership"]
reading_time: 6
upvotes: 5
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# The Leadership Role AI Is Creating (and Why Most Leaders Aren’t Ready for It)

**[IT Revolution](https://daily.dev/sources/itrevolution)** · 6 min read · 5 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Mik Kersten's book 'Output to Outcome' argues that AI is fundamentally reshaping the technology leadership role, not just the teams beneath it. He introduces the concept of the 'outcome manager' — a hybrid product/engineering leader accountable for both human and autonomous value streams. Using TUI Group's CIO as a case study, Kersten illustrates how effective AI-era leaders must stay directly connected to the Outcome Loop: running experiments, directing agents, and maintaining technical fluency. As autonomous agents take on more output work, accountability doesn't disappear — it moves up to the human leader who owns that value stream. Leaders are advised to stretch beyond their comfort zones, with technical leaders moving toward strategy and business leaders engaging hands-on with agentic tools.

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**@elmarchavez** · 0 upvotes

> It's not enough anymore to just write code. You have to lead it and have a broader perspective on the project architecture. Great read!

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