The Barbell Problem: Why Companies Are Getting AI Strategy Wrong
Artificial intelligence has entered the enterprise with enormous promise—and even greater confusion. Leaders know it will reshape their businesses, but they often don’t know how to sequence the journey or where ownership should sit. As a result, two unproductive extremes have emerged. I refer to them as the barbell problem: an organizational barbell with heavy […]
AI : The Makeover of Corporate America is Coming Soon
Corporate America is about to go on a diet—an involuntary one. And the weight-loss drug is artificial intelligence. The metaphor is intentional. Just as GLP-1 medications like semaglutide first suppress appetite, then reshape the body’s outward form, and eventually inspire an entirely new lifestyle, artificial intelligence—beginning with generative AI and evolving toward native AI enablement […]