Available August 2026
The strategy is set. The mindset is right. Now: here is exactly how you lead the team you’ve been handed — starting Monday.
AI agents are already operating inside your company. They hold roles. They make decisions. They have credentials, access tokens, and, increasingly, employee records of their own. According to Korn Ferry’s 2026 survey of 1,670 global talent leaders, 52% of executives plan to add autonomous AI agents to their teams this year. Only 22% believe their organizations can manage them.
That gap is not a technology gap. It is a command gap. And it is the gap Commanding the AI exists to close.
Drawing on three decades of operational leadership — from the 101st Airborne Division to P&L authority over $741 million and 3,300 employees across ten international sites: George C. Murray delivers the operational doctrine for the hybrid era. The Five Commands of Hybrid Leadership — Deploy, Delegate, Defend, Develop, Dominate, give you the spine. The ISAA Ladder, the Four C’s of Agent Onboarding, the Three Layers of Hybrid Accountability, and the 90-Day Hybrid Transformation Plan give you the tools. Every chapter ends with a Monday Morning Order : one specific action you take this week.
Commanding the AI is the third and final volume of the acclaimed AI Leadership Trilogy, following The AI-Driven Workplace — the foundation for individual contributors and front-line managers — and AI 2027 and Beyond — the board-ready strategic horizon. Read alone, each book stands on its own. Read together, they form a complete architecture for navigating the AI transformation of work.
Drive. Predict. Command.
