Most executives come to me with the same question: “Where should we be using AI?”
Tag Archives: Artificial intelligence
AI Is Creating Idle Capacity, Not Innovation
A friend of mine manages a department at a call center that handles bail bonds. Every Friday, she spends about two hours tracking down numbers scattered across multiple Excel files, pulling them into a single report. It’s tedious, mechanical, and completely automatable.
10x More Productive Means 10x Fewer People. Now What?
There’s a question your board is already asking, even if your leadership team isn’t: if AI makes every employee dramatically more productive, what do you need all those employees for?
What I’ve Learned Diagnosing AI Projects Before Building Them
When a client enters an AI engagement, they typically arrive in one of two ways. They know exactly what they want: a custom AI build, an automation, an agent. They’ve seen, read, or heard something. They have a spec in their head.
Stop Treating AI Like a Tool. It’s a Foundation
Every industry will be transformed by AI. Some will evolve. Others will disappear. New ones will be built from scratch. That’s not a prediction. It’s already in progress. The only question that matters now isn’t whether AI will reshape your business. It’s what position you’ll hold when it does.
8 AI Truths Executives Don’t Want to Hear
I work with executives and founders on AI transformation. I sit in the boardrooms. I see the decks. I hear the talking points. And I’ve noticed a pattern: the more senior the room, the more comfortable everyone is with comfortable lies.
Not malicious lies. Comfortable ones. The kind you tell yourself when the alternative, actually confronting what’s happening, feels too disruptive, too uncertain, too threatening to the org chart you’ve spent years building.
The Four Levels of AI Literacy, And Why Most Companies Are Stuck at Level Zero
There’s a conversation happening in boardrooms right now that goes something like this:
“Are we using AI?”
“Yes, absolutely. The team has ChatGPT.”
And everyone nods. Box checked. Initiative launched. Disruption avoided.