The New Leadership Test: Master AI For Strategy, Model It For A Smarter Company
Salesforce, June 24,2025
Using AI in the C-suite helps you hone your strategic vision and signals to employees that AI use isn't optional, but expected. Here's how.
Two years ago, 'AI literacy' was a niche C-suite term. Today, executives' use of AI is evolving as they discover AI is an essential thinking partner. The most effective among them are using it daily.
They're using it to set strategy, and as a cognitive sparring partner to challenge biases, preempt unseen risks, and do competitive analysis. This hands-on, top-down adoption is the ultimate test of an organization's ability to evolve in the artificial intelligence (AI) era. As Boston Consulting Group (BCG) notes, 'The CEO is perhaps the most pivotal figure in a company's adoption of AI.'