In September 2024, Jim Covello became Wall Street’s most recognizable AI skeptic. While Silicon Valley executives, venture capitalists, and technology analysts competed to make increasingly ambitious claims about artificial intelligence,
Category: Strategic Planning & Execution
Another pattern I’ve seen: Work that exists to support execution slowly turns into work that exists to support optics. Information gets filtered. Updates get curated. The goal shifts from “what’s
One thing I’ve seen repeatedly: teams generate a huge amount of reporting—but very little of it actually drives decisions. At one point, I was part of a team producing over
What proper alignment actually looks like in an organization: A lot of teams talk about alignment, but in practice it’s often vague. In my experience, alignment isn’t a feeling—it shows
One pattern I keep seeing across teams and projects: Work doesn’t stall because people aren’t working hard. It stalls because no one owns the structure of the work. A few
Over the past year, my work hasn’t followed a traditional structure. I’ve been operating in a highly complex, high-stakes environment that required me to manage multiple parallel workstreams, track dependencies,
Summary Situation: The company wanted to implement a comprehensive performance measurement program for the entire staff. Task: Identify and report on key metrics that reflect the company’s four main goals.
Summary Situation: The company’s most utilized software tool was limited and created suboptimal operation processes across the majority of teams. Task: Evaluate alternative options and make a recommendation with
Summary Situation: The company needed recurring reports to show how sales were aligning with revenue goals. Task: Develop a series of easily digestible reports for the strategic team. Action: Coordinated
Summary Situation: After increasing staff capacity, we counterintuitively experienced longer customer wait times. Task: Identify how to reduce customer wait times while still maximizing the number of customers at the