As a CEO, there are two ways your board can lose confidence in your artificial intelligence (AI) strategy. The first is watching a rushed roll-out fail in public. The second is watching nothing happen at all, quarter after quarter, while competitors move ahead. Leaders treat these as opposite failures: one of nerve, the other of discipline. But they are the same failure.

Successful AI adoption depends less on technology than leadership. Here's why executives must leave the boardroom and go work alongside their frontline teams.

As a CEO, there are two ways your board can lose confidence in your artificial intelligence (AI) strategy. The first is watching a rushed roll-out fail in public. The second is…