McKinsey’s AI transformation framework offers a strong foundation for enterprise leaders, emphasizing business value, technology modernization, talent, and operating model change. But strategy alone does not create lasting transformation. This practitioner analysis explores the critical human layer the McKinsey AI transformation manifesto overlooks, including facilitated alignment, change readiness, psychological safety, trust, co-design, and learning velocity. Discover how closing the Execution Gap can help organizations move beyond stalled AI pilots and build AI transformation programs that employees can actually adopt, sustain, and scale.