This isn’t another book about AI technology. This is a book about the organizational evolution that AI demands.
Most leaders are paralyzed without a human blueprint for AI transformation. Isolated successes don’t scale because they collide with company culture, roles, and resistance to change. Without a plan for people, the path from promising experiments to AI-native future remains frustratingly unclear.
AI integration expert Melissa Reeve provides the missing blueprint. Drawing from four decades of organizational research reimagined for the AI era, she reveals how companies like Moderna, Nike, and Toyota evolved from running AI projects to becoming Hyperadaptive Organizations that sense, respond, and evolve at AI speed.
This book delivers the five-stage progression from AI foundation to organizational orchestration with concrete actions for each phase, explains why 80% of AI initiatives fail and how to avoid predictable pitfalls, guides you through the “messy middle” where old structures collide with new capabilities, provides practical frameworks for restructuring roles, governance, and resources as AI reshapes work, and shares real-world case studies of organizations that successfully rewired themselves for AI.
Whether you’re a senior executive setting strategic vision, division leader implementing solutions, or change champion driving adoption, this book addresses your specific challenges. It doesn’t promise overnight transformation but provides honest guidance, proven patterns, and hard-won insights needed to evolve your organization incrementally but inevitably toward Hyperadaptivity.
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Melissa is your expert mountain guide to climbing through 5 stages to becoming a Hyperadaptive organization powered by people with AI. After setting the groundwork, the book shows how to get started, preparing you for each stage, step by step with relevant examples to make the ideas concrete and actionable. I appreciated that this book not only helps you lead your organization to efficiency and profit but to its greater purpose with AI for people and planet. This is a must read for all stages of your organization’s AI journey! (advance reader copy reviewed)