The Self-Recognition Gap

Leaders reflect on every other topic with clarity. Their teams, their strategy, their stakeholders, their own development. They can hold all of it, examine it, name what's working and what isn't.

When AI enters the conversation, something changes.

The reflection narrows. The language shifts. The leader who can see patterns everywhere else goes quiet in the one place that matters most right now.

I have been studying this gap in my own practice, leader after leader, through a proprietary research model. What I found wasn't what I expected.