Alignment at Speed: Leading AI-Enabled Teams

By Rebecca Johnson and Keith Johnson

AI is accelerating what's possible. Teams can analyze data, generate options, and produce work in hours that once took weeks. But the leadership models most organizations use haven't changed. Leaders still review decisions. Still maintain oversight. Still try to keep context and provide direction.

The result: you've become the bottleneck.

The pace of what your teams can execute now outpaces how fast you can review, decide, and redirect. You're asked to approve more decisions with less complete information. To maintain visibility over work you can't physically see. To set direction for possibilities that didn't exist last quarter.

When decision-making authority stays concentrated while execution accelerates, everything backs up at the leader level. Teams moving ahead of approval often interpret direction differently. The same strategic goal gets translated into many different ways. Work moves in parallel directions. Misalignment hardens before anyone notices.

This book describes what changes when the pace of work outstrips the leadership models built around it-and what discipline takes their place.

Intent Management(TM) is a practical leadership discipline for distributing judgment across your team while keeping the organization coherent and pointed in the right direction. Rather than trying to move faster or communicate more, it provides an approach that lets teams develop independent judgment while staying aligned with organizational intent.

The book explores five core elements: defining outcomes clearly enough that teams evaluate their own work, setting constraint boundaries that create focus, establishing evaluation criteria teams can apply to unforeseen decisions, anchoring decision authority so people know what they're empowered to choose, and maintaining the leadership presence that builds confidence without creating dependency.

This book is written for leaders who already have authority and feel its limits, and for coaches who work with those leaders. Intent Management(TM) is not a framework to master and move on from. It's a discipline that strengthens through use, reflection, and adjustment as conditions continue to evolve.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 197150307X
• ISBN13: 9781971503073
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Dolce Consulting LLC
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"