You walk in at 8:10 on a Thursday after two days on-site with a client. Before the coffee is poured, three people are at your door and a vendor has called twice. A stack of approvals is waiting, each with a sticky note that says "when you're back." Nothing broke while you were gone. Everything waited. Table of Contents The Owner Absence Test: What It Measures What a Business Does When Nobody Can Find the Owner How One Fast Answer Becomes a Permanent Route The Proximity Problem What an...

If your product is made here, the Made in USA label is supposed to earn back the higher cost of making it here. A 2022 Retail Brew/Harris Poll survey found that nearly half of respondents said they would pay about 10 to 20% more for American-made products. Stated intent is not a sale, but it is the premium you are competing for. Table of Contents What the Label Earns and What It Costs Made in USA Claims Meet AI Shopping Agents The Claim Breaks Between Departments The Proximity Problem What...

On October 1, 2024, Jamboard users lost the ability to create or edit a single board. According to Google's Jamboard help page, the existing boards were later converted to PDFs and left in Drive. A working whiteboard became a picture. Any process that lived on that board became a picture too, and in a hypothetical 25-person team, rebuilding just one workflow after a tool disappears costs about $17,625 in payroll cash. Here is the question worth asking: if the tool under one of your processes...