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source_timestamps: ["§ Breakdown 3: Leaders and managers operate in different realities."]
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sourceTitle: "AI Adoption Is Overloading Your Middle Managers"
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# BCG

**Boston Consulting Group (BCG)** is a global consulting firm cited in the source for survey data showing that **executives are roughly twice as likely as individual contributors to describe employees as enthusiastic about AI**. This quantifies the severe perception gap between leadership and operational reality — the third of the [[framework-three-breakdowns]] ('leaders and managers operate in different realities').

**Enrichment context.** BCG produces surveys on AI adoption including these executive-vs-frontline perception gaps; similar findings appear across other surveys where executives are consistently more optimistic than frontline staff about AI enthusiasm and readiness. This gap is the empirical basis for [[action-visible-leadership]].


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