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“As machines begin to decide, the future of leadership depends on what humans refuse to delegate.” Leadership is no longer a human-only act—and intelligence is no longer singular. What remains unresolved is who—or what—now carries responsibility when decisions are no longer purely human. As artificial intelligence moves from supporting decisions to actively shaping them, organizations face a profound and largely unexamined question: what should machines decide, what must humans decide, and what must never be substituted at all? This book begins precisely at that fault line. Opening with a seminal foundational chapter on Decision Substitution, the volume exposes one of the most consequential yet least interrogated shifts of the AI era—the quiet transfer of judgment from humans to intelligent systems, and the ethical consequences that follow. From this critical starting point, the book advances a bold and original leadership paradigm grounded in Human–AI Collective Intelligence. Bridging leadership theory, socio-technical systems, ethics, and collective intelligence, the chapters offer both conceptual depth and cross-sector relevance—spanning business, healthcare, education, governance, and global sustainability. The central question running through the book is not whether AI will participate in leadership, but how leaders can remain meaningfully human when it does. This is not a book about managing technology. It is a book about preserving human agency while expanding intelligence itself.