Scale AI by Redesigning Work: Replace or Augment?
The AI super-cycle: from growth to scale. Focus on work redesign: redesign workflows, define where AI replaces vs. augments work https://t.co/hJerCizN1R
Reevaluate Agile: Business Gaps, Chaos, Role Overload
RT Three important reasons why you should revisit Agile in your organization:(1) DevOps lacks business benefits, (2) Agile with chaotic processes, (3) Too many roles, too many meetings #Agile #CIO @Star_CIO https://t.co/RZY9U0X8ws
Ferrari’s 20‑Month Waitlist Keeps Desire High
Ferrari manages desirability by capping availability with a waitlist of about 20-24 months. Ferrari believes that this is the sweet spot between it being too long that clients move on and long enough that they keep desirability high by making...
Hiring a Manager Cut My CPA Hours Dramatically
I'm a CPA, and I worked less than 40 hours last week. (Two weeks before the 4/15 deadline) This was only achievable through hiring a manager and scheduling tax returns. I still spend way too much time on X & LI lol. https://t.co/0wdWHM5deS
Protect Your Time: Block One Hour for Focus
Distractions aren’t the problem—lack of control is. If you don’t protect your time, someone else will fill it with their urgencies. Try this: Block just 1 hour today for focused work. Decide in advance what you’ll do. Protect it. Small shift. Big difference. 👉 Read more...
AI-as-a-Service Unlocks Autonomous Digital Workers for Enterprises
The Next Big AI Shift Is Selling Digital Workers-As-A-Service Agentic AI-as-a-Service could make autonomous AI agents far easier for businesses to adopt, helping them skip major technical hurdles and move faster from experimentation to real value. This article explains why...
Growth Is Efficiency; Expansion Is Adding Resources
Most founders think growth and expansion mean the same thing. They don’t. Growth means you cut costs, raise profit, build systems, and replicate without adding more of your time. Expansion means you hire more people and open more stores. If your business depends on...
Perplexity Hits $450M ARR, Outsmarts Google and ChatGPT
Perplexity just crossed $450M ARR. For context: → ChatGPT took 2 years to hit that → Google took 6 years to reach profitability → Perplexity is doing it with a fraction of the headcount The AI search war isn't coming. It's already over for traditional...
Time for a New AI‑Age Management Playbook
"All of us read and follow Andy Grove's 'High Output Management.' Its time for a new playbook built for managing in the ai age." - @wadefoster, Zapier #DorseyMode
Beware Unfunded Liabilities: Visionaries Who Drain Your Resources
In business we call this an unfunded liability. Someone who shows up with vision, no capital, no execution, and expects YOU to finance the whole operation. He had ideas for my business. One month later: a broken website and a request for me...
Founders Build Brilliantly, Yet Struggle Scaling Operations
The harsh reality is that most founders are terrible operators and people managers to start. I sure was. I had strong instincts for product design, and some innate leadership skills, but that’s not the same thing as leading a company with...
Track Daily Calls to Boost Prospecting Success
If you want to get better at prospecting, start tracking your activity. Not in your head. Not when it’s convenient. Every day. How many dials are you making? How many real conversations are you having? How many are turning into meetings? Download my free Fanatical...
Let Your EA Own Your Calendar, Reclaim Hours
My EA runs my entire day… NOT me. I used to burn 2 hours a day just trying to figure out where I needed to be next. Now? She owns the calendar. Completely. I follow it. I don’t create it. This freaked me out...
1:1s Build Trust, Not Problem Updates
So many people miss this point. The purpose of 1:1s is ❌ not to hear problems ❌ not to get updates The purpose of 1:1s is to build a relationship with the direct report so that the manager can depend less and less...
Operational Maturity: Clarity, Ownership, Structure over More Tools
Operational maturity isn’t about having more systems. It’s about having the right level of clarity, ownership, and structure to support the business you’re building.
Claude + Pixa Auto‑Creates Ads, No Manual Work
Claude just added a creative team. If we connect it to Pixa, it can generate ad creatives whenever you need them. That means no more jumping between tools or doing manual work.
Beyond Productivity: Discover the True Value of Work
Productivity measures output. Productiveness asks what it all adds up to. My upcoming book explores the deeper layer beneath systems, tactics, and tools. Join the quiet build: https://t.co/S2Z73N4u1G https://t.co/ZWpaPSjPCZ
Pay, Challenge, Respect: The 3 Keys to Retention
People ask how we retain great employees without equity or VC perks. Three things: Are they making enough money? Are they intellectually challenged? Do they respect the people around them as their status rises in the world? If someone's getting all three, they're...
Self‑Managed Billion‑Dollar Firm Thrives Without Managers
A $1 billion company has operated for 53 years with ZERO managers. Workers buy $500,000 machines without approval. Hire their own colleagues. Set their own salaries. And they're outperforming every competitor in their industry. The coolest company you've never heard of:
Sony Pictures Cuts Hundreds in Sweeping Reorganization
Sony Pictures Entertainment to Lay Off Hundreds in Massive Reorganization Across TV, Film and Corporate https://t.co/pS2l98bQdA via @variety
Prioritize, Power‑Down, and Repeat for Daily Productivity
8 Steps to Unlock Your Productivity: 1. Write down 9 things you will get done today. 2. Rank them 1 through 9. 3. Turn off your phone. 4. Do #1 right now. 5. Then do #2. 6. When you're done #9 reward yourself. 7. Wake...
Integrations Only When Customers Demand, Not Startup Pitch
Recently more than one person called my Health Tech startup @SeamlessMD the “incumbent”. While we’ve been around 13+ years, it feels strange to call ourselves that - probably because we view the EHR as the incumbent. That said, there are...
AI Dismantles Agency Middlemen in Creator Economy
The creator economy just had its Uber moment. 30% agency cuts on a $5,000 brand deal = $1,500 gone to someone who forwarded three emails. An AI that knows your niche, pitches brands, and handles your inbox for free for a month...
Fast Growth Breeds Hubris; Diversification Can Crash
#2 fastest-growing company in North America. 57,000% growth rate. Then we got cocky and lost millions. We were in the middle of building Quest Nutrition into a billion-dollar company. So we launched a clothing line called Quest Apparel. It was a catastrophic...
Diagnose AE Ramp Issues Before Prescribing Solutions
Most companies have a ramp time problem. New AEs take 7 months to hit productivity. But nobody asks WHY. Is it because: • They don't see enough great demos? • They don't hear enough great discovery calls? • They don't follow full sales cycles? The root cause...
Stop Perfecting: Ship 80% and Scale
Most agency owners don’t delegate because they think nobody can do it like them. Perfection is the most expensive thing in your agency. Every hour you spend polishing something from 80% to 100% is an hour you’re not spending on the...
Scale to $1B AUM by Delegating, Leveraging Rainmaker Strengths
Scaling To $1B AUM By Recognizing Your (Rainmaker) Strengths And Delegating The Rest: #FASuccess Ep 484 With Jake Falcon explores how he attracts new clients and delegates plan preparation to give himself additional capacity as his firm surpasses one billion...
AI Generates 500+ UGC Videos Daily, No Camera
R.I.P. manual UGC creation. OpenCreator + OpenClaw = 500+ videos/day without touching a camera. One prompt and my bot cranked out multiple UGC videos. No filming, no actors, just done. https://t.co/1wYMz6Z76I
Free Real‑World FP&A Dashboard Pack for Startups
It took me 100+ client engagements to perfect the FP&A system I use today 10 dashboards and forecasting modules. Every one built from real startup work. Worth $249. Yours for free. This Friday I'm walking through all 10 and handing them to you...
Own Projects, Prioritize Change Management Over Tech
Don't just outsource your projects; own them. Take control and accountability. Invest heavily in change management over technology. True success lies in guiding experts and ensuring your vision is executed. #ProjectManagement #Leadership https://t.co/bwgewX2hIT
5‑Week Sprint Cycle Boosts Team Energy and Metrics
I’ve just kicked off a 5 week cycle with new engineer Each cycle has 5 sprints Each sprint contains one feature or product change based on metrics, a series of papercut fixes, and bug fixes. Sprint 5 is a cool down with...
Meta Evaluates Performance by Token Usage, Prompting Gaming
Token usage is part of perf evaluations at Meta. This is just smart people (Meta only hires smart folks) hitting targets they assume leadership wants them to hit so they get that exceeds expectations (or above) rating + avoid below expectations (Perhaps...
AI Platform Cobl Generates Sales Docs in 5 Minutes
🚨 A startup just killed the blank page problem for business documents forever. Cobl is a multi-agent AI platform designed for sales teams. Its mission: eliminate the thousands of hours spent producing sales proposals and other client facing documents Cobl does it...
Turn Feature Factories Into Outcome‑Focused AI Labs
MyPOV: Many product teams are still feature factories—shipping fast but missing outcomes. AI speeds everything up, but also speeds up mistakes. Trisha Price & @Chirag_Mehta explore shifting from features to outcomes, running teams like research labs, and AI-driven product insights....
Executive Assistants Boost Productivity Across Research and Management
Agree, though I’ve found the Executive Assistant capabilities to be equally productivity enhancing as the research tasks that it does well. Managing and planning trips/travel, managing proposal and article reviews (I referee more funding proposals than I do papers but...
AI Agents Shift Work to Higher‑level Management
When you have agents going out and doing work for you, the work just moved up a layer of abstraction. Now the work is figuring out what to tell the agent to do, ensuring you give it proper instructions, getting needed...
Bad Environment, Not Pay, Drives Top Talent Away
Your best people are leaving. If it was just money, you could fix it. This is different. The real reason is your environment doesn’t let them do their best work. You hired A-players and they became spectators. You hired people with taste...
Pandemic Shift: ICs Replace Middle Management as Key Orchestrators
The era of the IC started during the pandemic when it became clear very quickly who had tangible impact on the company. Remote work killed middle management. Today, ICs are the doers with domain expertise who are best suited to...
Integrate Pre‑Mortems to Save Future Time and Money
Are Pre-Mortems, Post-Mortems, After-Action Reviews Part of Your Work Plan? https://t.co/AGWF8vmQ63 Don’t view them as time consuming/waste of time. Build these meetings into your #projectplan. Ultimately they'll save you time (and money and heartache) in the future. #leadership https://t.co/i0ncHZybWG
One Yes Can Ignite Internal Innovation, Not One No
Steve Wozniak famously went to his boss at HP and said they should build a personal computer. They said no, so he left to found Apple. It’s a lesson for leaders: one "no" shouldn't kill a contrarian but right idea...
Keep Your Mission Alive Amid Daily Operational Chaos
#TimTalk - Struggling to keep your mission alive while drowning in daily operations? With Dr. Stephanie F. West https://t.co/iUTK27Wgsg via @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesLeader #Leadership #Culture #Motivation #Marketing #Success #Mindset #Entrepreneur #Management #Productivity
AI Multiplies Engineers, Leaving PMs Squeezed—Hire More
Narrative violation: Anthropic's Head of Growth says we'll need more PMs, not fewer. "While PMs and designers are getting leverage from AI, engineering is getting the most leverage right now. If you think about a default team with 5 engineers, 1...
AI Creates Original Episodes in Days for $200
One Piece. 26 years. $300,000 per episode. A factory running 10–20 episodes in parallel just to stay on schedule. AI does the same in 2 days for $200. And with Higgs' built-in Seedance 2.0 copyright checker, every frame is original. No stolen...
Instant AI Assistant Eliminates Onboarding for Knowledge Work
Holy moly... someone finally built the executive assistant that doesn't need a job posting. No meetings to onboard it. No training period. No "can you send me those files?" You give it your phone number and Google account. It takes care of...
Pairwise ELO Rankings Streamline Awards and Performance Reviews
So many judging tasks could be improved by aggregating partial orderings, and in the limit, just ordering pairs. The annual Libertarian Futurist Society novel awards discussion is starting, and while I would like to participate on some level, there is no...
A‑Players Quit for Hidden Reasons, Not Just Money
A-players don’t just “quit.” As a founder in the trenches for 20+ years, I’ve seen my fair share of A-players come and go. Most assume that star employees leave because of compensation or career advancement reasons. For some, yes, but for...
Valuation Hype Blinds Investors; Fundamentals Still Matter
Startuping is hard. Bolt, the one-click checkout turned financial “super app," raised nearly $1B, and hit an $11B valuation. Now it's cut a third of its staff, struggling to pay contractors, and its app has 5,000 downloads with mostly one-star reviews. Capital...
Focus Over Quantity: Why Companies Fail When Overextended
So many companies fail due to a lack of focus. Not from lack of ideas. Not from lack of talent. Not from lack of capital. From trying to do too many things at once.
Skip Ads, Knock Doors: Build Pipeline Faster
Most founders burn cash on ads before they knock on 10 doors. I tested a 6-step door strategy and booked more meetings in a week than a month of paid clicks. Lead with a question, map the right streets, track every talk,...
Top Managers Succeed By Avoiding These Five Pitfalls
I’ve managed hundreds people over 15+ years in business. My most successful managers all avoided these 5 things: (and you should too) #management #leadership #workplaceculture