The MACH-10 Leader: AI-Native Leadership at Decision Speed (The MACH-10 Leadership Series) - Softcover

Riggs, Jason M.

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798994032343

Publisher: Hypersonic Publishing, 2026

Synopsis

THE OPERATING MODEL FOR LEADING WHEN AI CHANGES THE SPEED OF EVERYTHING

AI is compressing the distance between signal, decision, action, and consequence. The gap between leaders who can operate at this speed and leaders still waiting for alignment is widening.

Are you shaping the system, or reacting after the moment has already passed?

The MACH-10 Leader is an AI leadership book and practical executive playbook for the AI-compressed era. From multi-award-winning author Jason M. Riggs, creator of The MACH-10 PM, it shows leaders how to make better decisions faster, build accountable systems, and lead with human judgment when speed alone is no longer enough.

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Five-star editorial reviews from Literary Titan and Readers’ Favorite.

WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR

For executives, founders, product leaders, operators, managers, consultants, and transformation leaders who can’t afford to let slow decisions, unclear ownership, or AI-driven complexity become a competitive disadvantage.

It isn’t a beginner introduction to AI. It’s a practical system for AI-native leadership, AI business strategy, executive decision-making, decision latency, automation risk, and human judgment.

MOVE AT AI SPEED. LEAD WITH HUMAN JUDGMENT.

Jason M. Riggs introduces the MACH-10 Leadership Model: a leadership operating model for organizations where AI accelerates execution, decision windows collapse, and traditional leadership habits create delay instead of control.

You’ll learn how to separate productive speed from performative motion, reduce decision latency, strengthen ownership, improve decision velocity, prevent automation from scaling the wrong work, and protect the human edge that determines what matters.

WHAT YOU’LL BE ABLE TO DO

By the end of this book, you’ll know how to lead at MACH-10:

THE DECISION VALUE LAW
Understand why decision quality, timing, and ownership must work together before a decision creates value.

SPEED WITH SOUL
Move fast enough to matter without surrendering judgment, context, or accountability.

DECISION LATENCY
Identify where decisions lose value while the organization is still aligning, validating, or waiting for permission.

THE GODZILLA EFFECT
Prevent small AI-driven errors from scaling into organizational damage.

THE AUTOMATION TRAP
Recognize when automation moves friction, rework, and accountability somewhere else.

LEARNING VELOCITY
Build faster feedback loops so teams learn from reality before slower organizations finish debating theory.

THE HUMAN EDGE
Use AI for leverage without letting judgment, taste, ownership, and responsibility go soft.

INSIDE THE BOOK, YOU’LL FIND:

• A leadership model for AI-compressed organizations
• Frameworks for faster decisions, clearer ownership, and accountable speed
• Practical tools for AI business strategy, executive decision-making, and AI transformation
• Field-tested patterns from product, strategy, restaurant technology, and AI automation
• Chapter-end diagnostics and leadership moves you can apply immediately

THE SEPARATION IS HAPPENING NOW

Slow leadership is no longer neutral. Alignment can become delay. Automation can create motion without judgment. Speed can amplify confusion as easily as advantage.

The leaders who win the AI era will know where speed belongs, where judgment matters, and when the system needs ownership before it needs another meeting.

The MACH-10 Leader gives you the operating model to reduce decision latency, make better decisions faster, strengthen accountability, and act while the opportunity still matters. AI is already moving. Lead before the gap widens.

About this title

About the Author

Jason M. Riggs is an award-winning author, product and technology executive, and creator of the MACH-10 Leadership Series.

He is the author of The MACH-10 PM: AI-Powered Product Management at Hypersonic Speed and The MACH-10 Leader: AI-Native Leadership at Decision Speed.

Over more than 25 years, Jason has led product, technology, commercial, and transformation initiatives across artificial intelligence, SaaS, mobile, cloud, hardware, and enterprise platforms.

His career includes leadership roles at Qualcomm, GoPro, and PAR Technology, where he managed large-scale product portfolios, built new businesses, led global teams, and helped organizations turn emerging technology into practical growth.

Today, he serves as Chief Commercial and Product Officer at Audivi AI, where he leads product, sales, and go-to-market strategy for AI-powered voice technology.

Jason's work focuses on AI-native leadership, decision velocity, product strategy, and building faster, clearer, more accountable systems for turning information into action without sacrificing human judgment.

Through the MACH-10 Leadership Series, he explores how leaders and product teams can move with greater speed without losing trust, accountability, or humanity.

His guiding principle is simple: Speed with Soul.

From the Back Cover

AI moves in milliseconds. Leadership still moves in meetings.

Organizations are adopting faster technology while continuing to rely on slow approvals, unclear ownership, overloaded calendars, and operating models designed for a different era.

The result is a widening gap between what technology can do and how quickly leaders can decide what to do with it.

The MACH-10 Leader is a practical guide to closing that gap.

Drawing on more than two decades of product, technology, and executive leadership, Jason M. Riggs shows why AI transformation is not primarily a technology challenge. It is a decision challenge.

Inside, you will learn how to:

• Identify and reduce decision latency
• Clarify ownership before speed creates confusion
• Use Decision SLAs to prevent unnecessary delay
• Distinguish between decisions that require speed and those that require deeper judgment
• Allocate trust without abandoning accountability
• Build leadership systems that can keep pace with AI

Through original frameworks including the Decision Value Law, the Targeted Speed Spectrum, the Trust Allocation Model, and the Decision Clarity Stack, Riggs provides leaders with a clear system for turning information into action.

Because faster technology cannot fix a slow operating model.

The future will not belong simply to the organizations with the best AI.

It will belong to the organizations capable of making better decisions at decision speed.

From the Inside Flap

AI is moving faster than leadership.

Organizations are investing heavily in artificial intelligence, automation, and increasingly powerful systems. Yet many are still operating through slow approvals, unclear ownership, overloaded meetings, and leadership models built for a different era.

The MACH-10 Leader examines the growing gap between technological speed and organizational speed, and what leaders must do to close it.

Jason M. Riggs reframes leadership as an operating system. The central question is not simply whether leaders can inspire people or communicate a compelling vision. It is whether their organizations can turn information into action quickly, clearly, and responsibly.

Through practical frameworks including the Decision Value Law, Decision SLAs, the Targeted Speed Spectrum, the Trust Allocation Model, and the Decision Clarity Stack, the book shows how leaders can identify decision friction, reduce organizational latency, clarify ownership, and move faster without surrendering judgment or accountability.

This is not a book about reckless speed.

It is a book about targeted speed: knowing which decisions must move immediately, which require deeper human judgment, and where responsibility must remain unmistakably clear.

Because AI transformation is not primarily a technology project.

It is a leadership redesign.

The organizations that thrive in the AI-native era will not simply have better tools. They will build faster, clearer, more accountable systems for making decisions and acting on them.

That is leadership at decision speed.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hypersonic Publishing
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798994032343
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208