Something is breaking inside the American corporation. Not the balance sheet, not the brand, not the technology stack—those are mostly fine. What’s breaking is harder to see on a slide deck and harder to fix with a budget line: the unwritten rules, shared assumptions, and organizational muscle memory that tell people how to behave, what to say, whom to listen to, and what happens when you get it wrong.
Artificial intelligence didn’t create this tension. But it is making it impossible to ignore.
