How AI Is Changing Strategy: Rethinking What Your Business Is Designed to Do

AI agents can now autonomously complete 16+ hours of work per instruction, forcing leaders to redesign organizations rather than just automate tasks.

• Beyond productivity: Mollick warns that treating AI as a productivity tool backfires—gains get absorbed into "more of everything" (more PowerPoint, more code) unless KPIs and organizational design change.
• Leadership, lab, crowd: His recommended model requires leaders to set direction, a dedicated lab team to build and test future systems, and broad employee ("crowd") access to frontier models to surface use cases.

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