Measuring AI Leadership in AI-Native Organizations
The paper treats AI leadership as behavior that can be measured, not as executive theater. It tests an AI Leadership Battery with 36 smaller parts and 11 groups. The measure gives the future-of-work debate a clearer target than whether leaders say they support an AI-friendly culture.
What the source reports
Mustafa Akben and Leslie Coyne's arXiv paper tests an AI Leadership Battery for AI-native groups. A battery is a set of measures. The snapshot says this one has 36 smaller parts and 11 groups. It covers judgment, learning, adaptation, transparency, coordination, accountability, and AI risk management. The finding shifts the topic from executive claims to behavior. The limit is that the snapshot reports a test of a measure. It does not show that higher scores caused better work results.
Original source
- Title
- Measuring AI Leadership: Development and Validation of a Multidimensional Measure for AI-Native Organizations
- Author
- Mustafa Akben, Leslie Coyne
- Publication
- arXiv
- Date
- Thursday, September 17, 2026