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For a long time, leaders had two tasks: Making decisions and coordinating.

Author: Dr. Michael Zeisig · First published: 7 April 2026

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For a long time, leaders had two tasks:

Making decisions and coordinating.

As organisations grew, coordination increasingly became the main work of leadership:

Aligning, reporting, prioritising, allocating, following up.

That is why organisations became management pyramids.

Now something new is happening:

Coordination can be automated.

Not perfectly. But well enough.

And above all: at scale.

That changes more than work.

It changes the role of leadership.

In the past, leaders were coordinators with decision rights.

In the future, leaders will be decision-makers and system designers —

without the burden of coordination.

So the interesting question is not:

What does AI do to work?

The more interesting question is:

What is the role of leadership in an organisation where a system handles coordination?

#AI #Leadership #Transformation

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Making decisions and coordinating.