The latest corporate toy for incompetent managers: AI !

We’ve all seen it before:

First it was PowerPoint. 

Then Dashboards. 

Then "agile."

Now it’s AI prompts and "AI strategy."

In the last couple of years, I have either been informed of or witnessed firsthand numerous executives and managers with little actual contribution to their organizations suddenly reinventing themselves as "AI visionaries":

🚩 Proclaiming that every task is "easy with AI"

🚩 Evangelizing their "holy" AI prompts

🚩 Boasting they can "do in minutes what once took days"

🚩 Pushing vague mandates that the company must be "AI-centric"

. . . all while not having a clue about LLM, ML, DL, NLP, RL, AGI . . .

🚨 The danger isn’t AI itself—it’s the illusion of mastery.

When leaders oversell tools they don’t understand, they risk:

📍  Setting impossible expectations

📍  Undermining the actual experts

📍  Burning trust inside the organization

💡  AI is powerful. But it’s not magic.

💡 And leadership isn’t about playing god with the latest toy—it’s about creating the conditions where real value can emerge.

💡Companies don’t need "AI messiahs", but rather thoughtful leaders who combine humility, understanding, vision and execution.