---
id: "framework-leadership-commitments-for-disclosure"
type: "framework"
source_timestamps: ["§ What Leaders Can Do"]
tags: ["leadership", "change-management"]
related: ["action-structured-sharing-conversations", "action-explicit-saved-time-norms", "action-reward-reusable-workflows", "action-legitimize-experimentation", "action-limit-sharing-cost"]
steps: ["\\\"Earn the disclosure you want (remove ambiguity", "use lightweight templates", "make asking routine)\\\"", "Stop taxing efficiency gains (establish explicit norms for reinvesting saved time)", "\\\"Reward multiplier behavior (incentivize reusable workflows and peer adoption", "not just individual productivity)\\\"", "\\\"Legitimize AI experimentation (create sanctioned categories for tinkering", "like 'side quests')\\\"", "\\\"Treat disclosure as a contribution (limit the cost of sharing; the company owns documentation", "the discoverer keeps credit)\\\""]
speakers: ["Eric Anicich", "Jeslyn Brouwers"]
sources: ["execution"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-execution"
originDay: 8
articleStem: "hbr-cl-76-employees-not-transparent-ai-usage"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/06/why-employees-arent-transparent-about-their-ai-usage"
sourceTitle: "Why Employees Aren’t Transparent About Their AI Usage"
---
# Leadership Commitments for AI Disclosure (The Five Commitments)

The source's prescriptive core: a **five-part** framework for leaders to build the trust that surfaces hidden AI workflows. It requires shifting the *social contract* so that disclosure strengthens an employee's position rather than undermining it — each commitment lowers one or more of the [[framework-costs-of-ai-visibility]].

1. **Earn the disclosure you want** → *lowers ambiguity.* Remove ambiguity, use lightweight templates, and make asking 'what exactly do you do that works?' routine. Operationalized in [[action-structured-sharing-conversations]].
2. **Stop taxing efficiency gains** → *lowers Workload Cost.* Establish explicit norms for how AI-saved time is reinvested. Operationalized in [[action-explicit-saved-time-norms]]; counters [[concept-efficiency-tax]].
3. **Reward multiplier behavior** → *lowers Reputational + Replaceability Cost.* Reward reusable workflows and peer adoption, not just individual output. Operationalized in [[action-reward-reusable-workflows]]; see [[concept-multiplier-behavior]].
4. **Legitimize AI experimentation** → *lowers Reputational Cost.* Create sanctioned categories for tinkering. Operationalized in [[action-legitimize-experimentation]]; see [[concept-side-quests]] and [[concept-praiseworthy-exploratory-testing]].
5. **Treat disclosure as a contribution** → *lowers ongoing burden.* The discoverer demonstrates once and keeps credit; the company owns documentation and distribution. Operationalized in [[action-limit-sharing-cost]].

**Enrichment / historical caution:** past electronic knowledge repositories (see [[prereq-knowledge-management-systems]]) sat empty when the codification burden was high or sharing norms were unclear — which is exactly why commitments #1 and #5 exist.