A new layer of management is emerging and with it, a new leadership challenge.

People manage people. People manage AI agents. And increasingly, both work side by side. On the Human x AI podcast, Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson describes this shift as everyone becoming the CEO of their own small fleet of agents. But managing AI is only part of the story. The real challenge is not simply plugging AI into existing workflows. It's stepping back to rethink why work is done the way it is and exploring what becomes possible when human expertise and AI capabilities are designed to work together.