Growth Insights for CEOs
Advice for CEOs on Growth and Scaling
Mike Rosenberg
A strategic digital marketing and customer acquisition leader, Michael helps B2B and B2C companies drive successful digital transformations and improve and upgrade existing digital efforts. He helps drive sales and profitable revenue growth with extensive online advertising, digital marketing, strategy, sales and business development expertise. With a leadership track record of growing companies as CMO, COO, and CRO, he applies his direct response, product development, sales leadership and branding expertise to quickly develop new revenue sources while building effective teams. A veteran of start-ups and Fortune 500 companies like Procter & Gamble, HJ Heinz, AOL and Bain & Co, he brings big company expertise to bear on mid-market growth challenges.
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The Gap Between AI Output and Real Marketing Leadership
Thu, Aug 6, 2026 | Posted by Rob Godlewski
Executive Takeaways
- AI can inform marketing strategy. It cannot own it, defend it, or answer for it when it fails.
- AI sounding right without the context to actually be right is the real risk.
- Trade-offs, risk calls, and accountability are executive work. AI can't take any of the three off your plate.
- Leadership owns the outcome, not the AI.
A lot of CEOs are starting to ask the same question, even if they don't always say it this directly: if AI can build a strategy deck, suggest a campaign, analyze competitors, and hand back polished recommendations in seconds, why keep paying for a CMO?
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