Unimaginable: Leading AI Transformation to Build Extraordinary Things

Companies have spent billions putting AI into the hands of their people. Most still can’t say what changed.

Ask executives whether AI has made their companies more productive and most can’t point to a result they can measure. The tools are everywhere. The results are much harder to find. A small minority of companies are clearly pulling ahead while nearly everyone else, with access to much of the same technology, is still trying to figure out what to do with it.

Unimaginable is for the leaders who have been told to make AI deliver results. This isn’t a technology book. It’s a management book about what has to change in the way a company decides, permits, hires, measures, builds, and organizes itself once starting is no longer the hard part.

Drawing on the research, the public record, and his own work leading AI transformation, Jacob Morris lays out the decisions that separate the companies getting real value from the ones running expensive experiments. How to commit to a capability that changes faster than your planning cycle. Why giving people permission matters more than giving them tools. What to look for in the people you hire and promote now that anyone can sound smart. Why the biggest gains are hiding in work nobody has thought to question. How to prove an initiative pays when the proof has to survive a budget review. Why the staffing plan has to change once your people can do more than it assumes. And what happens to management layers, careers, and identities when one person can do the work of a team.

The book ends at the company you haven’t built yet. Because the most interesting return on AI may not be doing what you couldn’t do before. It may be building what you couldn’t imagine before.