"If your company isn’t keeping up with AI, let me give you the real reason:
You don’t have enough Jacks
You know exactly who “Jack” is:
the builder, the doer, the one who actually ships things while everyone else schedules another meeting to “align.”
But instead of hiring more Jacks, most companies do the opposite:
➡️ They create an “AI Center of Excellence.”
➡️ They hire a “Head of AI Strategy.”
➡️ They add two layers of managers… before writing a single line of code.
And then they wonder why innovation is slower than a Windows XP update….
The truth is simple:
Too much hierarchy ki-ls AI velocity.
Not because people are bad… but because every new manager means extra decks, extra approvals, extra reporting, extra politics and zero extra innovation.
If you have a team of strong senior builders, you don’t need ten managers.
You need to get out of their way and let them build.
This is why startups move at light speed
And enterprises move like they’re being pulled by a tired horse
If you want to win in AI, stop collecting titles…
and start collecting builders"
This could apply at FIS to AI, account management, cio, marketing, commercial management....
FIS keeps firing the builders and doers and adding more CEO minus two level chiefs, each of which then expand their empires and hiring, turf battles, demand more internal reporting....