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As AI changes how leaders run their businesses, it shifts perspectives. It removes busy work and other excuses that sometimes mask poor leadership. Instead, it changes where potential bottlenecks take place, putting even more emphasis on essential human leadership qualities that make or break a business. In this case, disruption comes as leaders adapt to their new normal and use agentic AI to strengthen their operations from top to bottom. For many businesses, the biggest motivation for adopting agentic AI comes from how it addresses the bottlenecks that typically occur at the execution stage. Leadership often focuses on overseeing manual processes and dictating which tasks individual employees will handle, and AI can directly transform these tasks.