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AI Is a Psychological Event Before It Is Strategic

Written by Yang Yi (Jade)

10 August 2026

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Inside a three-year AI transformation in Greater China: why the hardest obstacles had nothing to do with technology.

Most AI transformations stall not because the technology fails, but because leaders treat AI as a strategic initiative when their people are experiencing it as a psychological one. A three-year leadership arc inside a specialist professional services firm in Greater China shows what happens when a leadership team gets that sequence right, and what it costs when they don’t.