Nobody Told the People: Leading a Team Through an AI Rollout Without Losing Trust, Talent, or Your Nerve

The meeting is on a Tuesday. You did not schedule it. You did not pick the tool. You were not in the room where it was chosen. You may not entirely understand what it does. And you are the one who has to sit across from somebody who has worked for you for nine years and answer a question nobody gave you an answer to. Most AI rollouts do not fail on the technology. The tool usually works about as advertised. They fail in the twenty minutes after the staff finds out - and eighteen months later somebody writes adoption challenges in a retrospective and everybody moves on. This is the book for the manager in the middle. What your people are actually asking underneath the questions they will say out loud. Why you must never promise that nobody loses a job. The difference between measuring and watching, and why getting it wrong is the fastest way to lose a building. Who is accountable when the machine is wrong. And how to say out loud that it did not work. Every chapter ends with one line you can say in a hallway and still stand behind six months later.