The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis

When AI agents can do a white-collar professional’s job for the price of electricity, India’s labour-arbitrage moat vanishes overnight.
This Citrini Research scenario maps a devastating feedback loop — mass displacement, collapsing demand, and broken business models — arriving as early as 2028.
VentureBean’s analysis reveals why surviving this shift is fundamentally a leadership challenge.
Global Leadership Forecast 2025

The recent DDI Global Leadership Forecast 2025 paints a sobering picture of a leadership ecosystem under immense strain, a reality we at VentureBean see daily among scaling Indian enterprises. The data reveals a staggering collapse in workplace confidence, with trust in immediate managers plummeting to a mere 29%, all while 71% of leaders report severe increases in stress and burnout. For mid-market Indian companies in the ₹10Cr-100Cr revenue band