You Do Not Have Time for a Two-Hour Kickoff but You Have Time to Fail for a Year

A VP told me his org only had 30 minutes for AI training. I recommended the two-hour kickoff that has consistently produced results. He said they did not have time. That told me everything I needed to know.

I have had this conversation five times in the last two months. The titles change (VP of Engineering, CTO, Senior Director of Platform), the companies change (financial services, healthcare, logistics, insurance), the size changes (eighty engineers, four hundred, two thousand). The conversation is always the same.