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McKinsey flags an AI productivity paradox: individual gains don’t lift enterprise EBIT
Sep 1, 2026SOURCE: forbes.com
SO WHAT
In the thousand-day window, this signals that the limiting factor is governance and value-routing, not model capability—misalignment can turn efficiency into organizational drag.
A McKinsey survey finds 80% of employees report higher personal productivity with AI, but only 37% see positive EBIT impact. The wire frames translation failure: in the inversion, output shifts faster than incentives, systems, and network incentives adjust.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.