Gravity of Command: Leading With Purpose in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

By Shailesh Shrivastava and Taylan Yildirim

Are you leading a team through the AI shift and watching pilots stall out? You're not alone.

95% of enterprise AI pilots fail to deliver ROI within six months. 60% of AI projects will be abandoned by the end of 2026. Yet only 1% of organizations call their AI deployments "mature." That gap - between what AI promises and what teams actually ship - is the defining leadership challenge of this decade.

The Gravity of Command is the field guide built for this moment. It won't teach you leadership from scratch or turn you into an AI expert. It shows you how to take what you already know and make it work in the age of AI - using intelligent systems as a force multiplier, not a threat to your judgment.

You'll learn through two leaders you'll recognize. Bob knows which problems actually need solving and how to keep a team focused - but struggles with the pace of the AI era. Alice can deploy an ML pipeline in hours, yet keeps hitting walls on stakeholder buy-in and org politics. Their friction, and the common ground they find, is the real work of leading human-AI teams.

Inside, you'll learn to:

Build a clear North Star for teams in fast-changing tech environmentsUse AI as a leadership amplifier without surrendering human judgmentStrengthen planning, risk management, and stakeholder alignmentLead AI-enabled teams with trust, transparency, and accountabilityAvoid the common traps: blind faith in algorithms, weak governance, poor change managementApply ready-to-use frameworks grounded in the PMBOK(R) Guide (7th Edition)

Frameworks you can use Monday morning - not theory that gathers dust.

AI can automate tasks and accelerate delivery. What it cannot do is give a nervous stakeholder confidence, mentor a junior engineer through self-doubt, or choose the hard right thing over the easy profitable one. That human force - keeping teams aligned, ethical, and anchored to purpose - is what this book calls Gravity Leadership.

And it's the leadership book that doesn't end when you close the cover. Continue at GravityOfCommand.com, where you can explore the ideas with your preferred AI companion - ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or another you trust.

In a world moving at the speed of light, leaders need more than speed. They need direction. They need purpose. They need gravity.

Suit up. Take command.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HBFX8WYR
• ISBN13: 9798995307815
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Gravityofcommand
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"