Free Lesson
Leaders Go First: Admitting What You Don't Know About AI
Part of The Five Dysfuntions of AI Transformation
30 min
Oct 26, 2026 3:00 PM
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What you'll learn
Model the Vulnerability Your Org Needs
What executives gain — in speed, honesty, and risk detection — by publicly sharing their own AI literacy gaps.
Launch Failure Fridays
A monthly 30-minute session where teams share what went wrong and what they learned, without blame.
Build a Limitations Dashboard
Track model failures and open unknowns openly, so problems surface in a dashboard instead of in the news.
Why this topic matters
When leaders hide what they don't know about AI, failures go undiscussed. Absence of Trust is Dysfunction 1 — the base of the pyramid. No operating model or governance ritual survives its absence. The intervention is disarmingly simple: leaders go first. Executives learn three practices — vulnerability statements, Failure Fridays, and the Limitations Dashboard — that turn AI uncertainty from a private liability into a shared asset.
