By the time Bryan Buck starts talking about “agility,” it is tempting to file the word away with familiar corporate abstractions like innovation and transformation. But listen closely to how the managing partner at executive search firm ON Partners uses it, and it becomes clear he is describing something far more concrete and disruptive to the traditional CEO ladder.
Agility, Buck argues, is the new operating system for leadership. In the AI era, boards are beginning to hire for it with urgency as the signals that once defined executive readiness start to weaken and the cost of a bad leadership bet rises.
The result is a shifting reality in C-suite selection. Leaders are being rewarded for speed, experimentation, and AI fluency while being penalized for hype, overreach, and the executive equivalent of hallucination, he says.
While the traditional CEO model built on tenure, institutional knowledge, and linear career progression still exists, Buck says, it is no longer t
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