Vishen LakhianiFounder of Mindvalley | NYT Bestselling Author | Transforming Lives Globally

The next generation won't just manage people

15 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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Vishen Lakhiani argues that future leaders will manage machines, not people. The critical skill is clarity of thought: the ability to define goals precisely so AI systems can understand them. Over the past decade, vague language and abbreviations have made this harder.

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When you get a new job, when you start a new company, you might never hire a human, you might never manage a human, but you will definitely be leading machines. And in that change, you now have to have the number one skill as an AI leader. The number one skill to manage a machine is clarity of thought. That you need to really think about what you want, articulate what you want with words that a machine can understand. And here's the sad news. Over the last 10 years, we've gotten further and further away from that clarity of knowing who we are and how do we wanna say things. We use these short words and truncations, and now these machines are counting on us to be clearly, definitively identifying what we wanna do and how we wanna build it.