---
id: "quote-divide-stems-from-judgment"
type: "quote"
source_timestamps: ["¶3"]
tags: ["bottleneck", "adoption"]
related: ["claim-bottleneck-is-explicit-judgment"]
speaker: "Jen Stave, Ryan Kurt and John Winsor"
speakers: ["Jen Stave", "Ryan Kurt", "John Winsor"]
quote: "The divide stems from different approaches to something that most leaders have never had to confront: making judgment explicit. That's the new bottleneck in AI adoption, and it's catching most organizations off guard."
sources: ["agentic"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-agentic"
originDay: 6
articleStem: "hbr-new-27-teach-ai-your-decisions"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/06/teach-your-ai-how-you-make-decisions"
sourceTitle: "Teach Your AI How You Make Decisions"
---
# The divide stems from making judgment explicit

> "The divide stems from different approaches to something that most leaders have never had to confront: making judgment explicit. That's the new bottleneck in AI adoption, and it's catching most organizations off guard."
> — [[entity-jen-stave|Jen Stave]], [[entity-ryan-kurt|Ryan Kurt]] and [[entity-john-winsor|John Winsor]]

The anchoring statement for [[claim-bottleneck-is-explicit-judgment]]: the barrier to AI adoption is not technical but a novel organizational challenge. Directly motivates [[concept-judgment-infrastructure]] and [[concept-codifying-judgment]].