Your Weekly Guide to Running a More Efficient Business.

You bought the AI tool. Your team logged in. Someone built a prompt. And then... nothing changed. The tasks still pile up. The handoffs still break down. And now you have one more tool nobody uses sitting next to the five you already have. According to a World Economic Forum analysis f eaturing Kaizen Institute research, 55% of companies say outdated systems and processes are their single biggest barrier to AI adoption. Not cost. Not complexity. Broken operations. The proble

Your best employee hasn't taken a real vacation in over a year. They say they're fine. But you've noticed the shorter fuse, the slower output, the mistakes that never used to happen. They're burning out. A recent Business Journals report , citing research from Careerminds, found that three out of four American workers experience burnout at least sometimes. One in four experience it frequently. But here's what caught my attention: nearly a quarter of workers avoid taking PTO

South Florida tourism just posted record numbers. A brand-new travel expo is headed to the region. Visitor demand for early 2026 is already up. And somewhere in Palm Beach County, a restaurant owner is about to have the busiest weekend of the year with the same three-ring-binder training manual from 2019. The opportunity is real. Discover The Palm Beaches reported 10.6 million visitors during the 2024-2025 fiscal year, generating $11.3 billion in economic impact and supporti

You hire someone with solid experience. They interview well. Their resume checks out. References confirm they're competent. Three months in, they're missing deadlines. Making preventable mistakes. Asking questions they should know the answer to by now. You think: "I have a lack of skilled employees problem." But here's what I've noticed in 25 years across different industries—when good people consistently underperform, the problem usually isn't the people. What "Lack of Skill

Your team is working harder than ever. Everyone's putting in long hours. Emails fly. Meetings happen. Tasks get assigned. But somehow, nothing actually gets finished. Feeling stuck despite all the activity? Get the System Leak Audit —it identifies where work is getting trapped in your operations. This is the pattern of busy not productive small business operations: endless motion without meaningful progress. And it's exhausting. You're not imagining it. Your business really i