The News
Dina Powell McCormick has great insight into Meta’s commitment to AI – office real estate.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has “actually moved his desk and is seated in the AI lab … and he’s coding all day long,” McCormick told Semafor World Economy on Tuesday. She joined the company as president and vice chairman in January 2026.
“He feels so strongly that he has to understand it at that level to really think about how to make our model the strongest it can be.”
She also said that she had to transition from the pace of her former roles — ranging from partner at Goldman Sachs to deputy national security advisor for strategy under President Donald Trump — to Meta’s breakneck speed.
“Silicon Valley, or at least I’ve seen Meta move much, much more quickly than when I worked in government or even on Wall Street.”
When asked about the recent rulings on Meta’s legal liability for harm to teen mental health, McCormick responded, “We disagree respectfully with those verdicts, and we’re appealing.”
She added, “I have seen how seriously the leadership of the company takes this to ensure that there is not harmful content, and most importantly, to ensure that parents are empowered.”
The View From
By Liz Centoni, EVP and Chief Customer Experience Officer, Cisco
Most organizations aren’t stuck on AI because the technology doesn’t work. They’re stuck in what I call the ‘AI Reality Gap’: running pilots, proving pockets of value, but never translating that into real business transformation.
At Cisco, we took a different approach. We didn’t start with the technology. We started with the work. Where are decisions made? Where is judgment required? From there, we reimagined workflows end-to-end, collapsing entire sequences, rebuilding from the ground up. That’s workflow surgery in practice. It’s how AI agents now handle over 1.4 million support cases a year. Optimizing tasks gets you incremental gains. Redesigning AI-native workflows around outcomes gets you transformation.
What holds most organizations back isn’t the technology. It’s leadership. Workflow redesign is a leadership competency, not an IT function, and building that muscle is what separates the organizations that win from those that don’t.
The leaders who get this right won’t just move faster. They’ll operate differently. The risk for those who don’t isn’t inefficiency. It’s irrelevance.