Key points

AI compresses expertise—depth alone isn’t enough.

Leadership now requires cognitive range.

Four intelligences matter: analytical, visionary, relational, competitive.

Integration—not specialization—is the new advantage.

For more than a century, organizations have rewarded one kind of intelligence above all others: specialization. The great lawyer knew law. The great surgeon knew surgery. The great engineer knew engineering. Depth was the currency of competence.

But in the Age of AI, this logic is rapidly collapsing.

Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam Source: Hans Holbein the Younger, National Gallery/Public Domain

Artificial Intelligence has compressed knowledge that once took decades to master into tools anyone can use. Diagnosing illness, writing code, analyzing cont

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