Middle Management Has No Place in the Agentic AI Economy

The AI Adoption Podcast · Jul 30, 2026 · 32m

Ten years in the same sales role now predicts AI resistance. Leo Rogers has seen the pattern often enough to name the mechanism: representatives who hit their number quarter after quarter were never questioned on their method, so the method was never examined. His verdict is that AI adoption is a people problem as much as a technology problem.

Leo Rogers, co-founder and CEO of Curvo, which builds a real-time execution layer for sales teams, argues that knowledge has become a commodity and that the need for generalists is on the rise.

He makes the case for skill stacking, holding roughly 30…