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The Friendly Takeover: How artificial influence is automating leadership

The Friendly Takeover: How artificial influence is automating leadership


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Algorithms already allocate work, monitor performance, and shape careers. As AI begins to simulate care, trust, and influence, leaders confront hyper automated leadership where compliance can feel like commitment. The Friendly Takeover gives executives, HR leaders, and managers a practical framework for workforce planning, workplace automation, and AI governance, built on five leadership paradoxes. Learn to spot surveillance creep and opaque performance algorithms, set guardrails for human agency, and govern automation so artificial influence stays accountable.

Table of Contents:

Introduction 1

1. Keeping Control Without Killing Commitment 22

2. How Precision Protects, and Connection Persuades 31

3. Unlocking Agency in an Age of Automation 51

4. Balancing Freedom of Choice and Constraint by Design 72

5. When Private Wins Create Public Loss 100

Leveraging Our Human Edge 125

Notes 132



About the Author :
Michael Collins is a leadership researcher, executive educator, and advisor focused on how AI is reshaping power, trust, and accountability at work. A former Australian Army officer and PhD-qualified leadership scholar, he has spent decades helping senior leaders strengthen leadership and capability systems across complex public and commercial environments, including public safety, resources, finance, aviation, government, and defence. He brings a rare blend of academic rigour and on-the-ground experience to the question at the heart of The Friendly Takeover: what leaders must govern when management and influence become automated.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781923680487
  • Publisher: Green Hill Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Green Hill Publishing
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 160
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Weight: 167 gr
  • ISBN-10: 192368048X
  • Publisher Date: 29 Apr 2026
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: How artificial influence is automating leadership
  • Width: 127 mm


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