{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The AI Governance Brief","title":"AI Governance Failure: You Don't Know Your Own Organization","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1108,"description":"Seventy-five percent of HR leaders report that managers are overwhelmed and not equipped to lead change. But before you dismiss this as a middle management problem, consider: by the time information reaches the CEO, it has been filtered, softened, and \"customised to cater to superiors' expectations\" at every level. Researchers call it \"interpreting upwards.\"You're not leading the organization you think you're leading. You're leading the organization people want you to believe exists.And that organization is a fiction.In This Episode:The CEO Bubble Is RealGartner 2025: 75% of managers overwhelmed and unequipped to lead changeCEIBS research: Information is \"interpreted upwards\" at each level—filtered, softened, divorced from ground truth66% of employees hide aspects of themselves from senior leaders80% of C-suite executives \"cover\" with almost everyone around themYou Cannot Move an Organization You Don't UnderstandThe org chart is a legal fiction—necessary for compliance, useless for understanding how work gets doneThe 80/20 reality: 20% of people drive 80% of influence—and they're not always the people with titlesWith just 20 influential employees identified through ONA, companies can reach 70% of the entire organizationThe Seven Types of Informal PowerExpertise-Based Power (technical knowledge, organizational memory)Reputational Power (track record, reliability)Relational Power (access to key people, social capital)Cultural Gatekeeping (control over \"how things are done here\")Information Brokerage (bridging disconnected groups)Resource Control (informal control over budgets, tools, access)Positional Proximity (closeness to decision-makers)Network Position Metrics That MatterDegree Centrality: Direct connections—ability to spread information or resistance quicklyBetweenness Centrality: Bridge between disconnected groups—the brokers with cross-silo perspectiveEigenvector Centrality: Connected to other highly connected people—systemic influenceWhy Your AI Governance...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/rDqBMJXwlhb2bvZjH0V1qAuqxHAFqIADttstgmIyldM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wNzgz/MjhlNjg0NjRjYThi/MGI3YWEzMzkyNzVm/ZTdiYy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}