Founders Are Sending Bots to Their One-on-Ones in Their Place. Execs Call It a Management Failure

Four CMOs in one advisory practice haven’t spoken to their founder in over a month. Here’s what was lost. 

EXPERT OPINION BY VICTORIA WATTERS, MEDIA ENTREPRENEUR

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A marketing leader starts a new job, sees a standing weekly one-on-one with the founder on her calendar, and accepts it. Five weeks in, she still hasn’t had a single conversation with him. It’s always an AI agent or auto-notetaker that shows up to record the call and file a summary.

The founder, feeling efficient, skims the recap. In........

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