Innovation timelines are collapsing, and the collapse began long before AI. Josh Linkner and Kaiser Yang on what that speed is doing to the people who run companies — and why the organizations pulling ahead answer it with trust and small experiments rather than budget.
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The competitive question for 2026 is not whether to use AI, but what to keep human and why. Josh Linkner and Kaiser Yang on the three capabilities that decide it — creative confidence, risk permission and human discernment — with the research, and what RapidAI and Brex did about it.
Most organizations already employ the creative people they need. Drawing on peer-reviewed research, industry surveys covering more than 55,000 workers, and company case studies, this quarter’s Innovation Quotient examines the conditions that decide how much those people actually produce — and how quickly a leader can change them.