About halfway through a conversation with Fortune last week, LinkedIn chief business officer Mark Lobosco was asked a blunt question: How much of the enterprise AI adoption story is about executives who resist understanding because their jobs depend on them not understanding it? After all, they spent the vast majority of their careers in a pre-AI world where they didn’t have to plan for this unpredictable new technology.
He didn’t push back.
“Sometimes,” he said, “different parts of the org may be less willing to change, maybe to your point, because it’s their job not to do that.”
It was an honest moment in a 40-minute conversation with the executive overseeing half of LinkedIn’s workforce—and the one his company’s own research, released this week, most clearly points toward.
The survey of 1,252 C-suite leaders in the U.S., U.K., and India finds half of executives acknowledge they don’t have clear visibility into the roles and skills their organizations will need as AI matures—what LinkedIn’s report calls a “workforce blind spot.” Seventy-eight percent say they are moving faster on AI than they can effectively measure.
