Organizational Change and AI

Ethan Mollick teaches at Wharton and writes the most widely read newsletter on what AI actually does to work. He runs the experiments himself and reports what happened, including when it failed. The posts on organizations, on why companies see individual gains and no firm-level lift, are the ones for a change leader. Free, and worth every issue.

A Substack and podcast from a practitioner who has deployed AI inside large companies and writes about why it is hard. Procurement, data, security reviews, the middle managers who quietly decline. It is the field report that vendor decks leave out. Read it before you sign the enterprise agreement.

A newsletter for executives who own an AI deployment and are accountable for the number. It is about operating models, governance and the gap between pilot and production. Less theory than Mollick, more checklists. Useful for the quarter after the announcement.

Kris Saling writes about change readiness and workforce transformation from experience running it inside a very large organization. The posts on adapting classic change frameworks to AI adoption are practical and skeptical of hype. Good for the person who owns the people side rather than the technology.

A practitioner hub for change managers: articles, interviews, a podcast and a knowledge base. It is the trade press for the discipline, and it has covered AI-driven change since before it was fashionable. Sign up for the newsletter if change is your job title.

Prosci has benchmarked change programs for decades and built the ADKAR model most corporate change teams use. The blog is the free layer: research summaries, the recurring findings on sponsorship and resistance, and a growing set of posts on AI adoption. It sells training and certification; the research stands on its own. Cite it when you need a number the CFO will accept.