{"id":1012803,"date":"2026-06-06T11:53:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T06:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012803"},"modified":"2026-06-06T11:53:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T06:23:55","slug":"okta-president-eric-kelleher-says-managers-are-the-biggest-hurdle-to-ai-adoption-we-have-trained-every-manager-in-the-world-to-think-about-one-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/06\/okta-president-eric-kelleher-says-managers-are-the-biggest-hurdle-to-ai-adoption-we-have-trained-every-manager-in-the-world-to-think-about-one-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Okta president Eric Kelleher says managers are the biggest hurdle to AI adoption: \u2018We have trained every manager in the world to think about one thing&#8230;\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okta President and COO Eric Kelleher has identified the biggest challenge for companies in adopting artificial intelligence (AI). He believes that the biggest hurdle to AI adoption is not the technology itself but the way managers have been trained to think about work, budgets and organisational structures. Speaking at the COO Summit, Kelleher said companies have largely figured out how to experiment with AI tools and agents. He argued that the more difficult task is convincing managers to redesign work around a workforce that includes both humans and AI agents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have trained every manager in the world to think about one thing, and that is: what\u2019s their headcount. Our managers have spent decades learning how to think about headcounts and payroll,\u201d Kelleher said at the event, as reported by Fortune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okta President and COO Eric Kelleher has identified the biggest challenge for companies in adopting artificial intelligence (AI). He believes that the biggest hurdle to AI adoption is not the technology itself but the way managers have been trained to think about work, budgets and organisational structures. Speaking at the COO Summit, Kelleher said companies have largely figured out how to experiment with AI tools and agents. He argued that the more difficult task is convincing managers to redesign work around a workforce that includes both humans and AI agents. \u201cWe have trained every manager in the world to think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012804,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012803\/revisions\/1012804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}