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Management as AI superpower

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As a business school professor, I think many people have the skills they need, or can learn them, in order to work with AI agents - they are management 101 skills. If you can explain what you need, give effective feedback, and design ways of evaluating work, you are going to be able to work with agents. In many ways, at least in your area of expertise, it is much easier than trying to design clever prompts to help you get work done, as it is more like working with people. At the same time, management has always assumed scarcity: you delegate because you can't do everything yourself, and because talent is limited and expensive. AI changes the equation. Now the "talent" is abundant and cheap. What's scarce is knowing what to ask for.