Managers Are Struggling to Keep Up with the AI Productivity Boom
Harvard Business Review · 25 May 2026

Managers Are Struggling to Keep Up with the AI Productivity Boom

“Every 30 minutes, someone creates something I have to look at,” a manager recently told us. As AI accelerates individual execution, a new bottleneck to progress is emerging: managers. Traditional management was designed for a world where execution took time. You could delegate a task and then comfo


AI Translated Summary:
The rapid advancement of AI is outpacing traditional management practices, creating new challenges for managers who must now oversee a faster pace of work. As individual productivity increases, the bottleneck shifts to management, which struggles to adapt to this new reality.


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