Monthly Archives: October 2026

Replacing Employees With AI Will Probably Cost You $2 Million Each Time… and Bankrupt You

The spreadsheet Somewhere today an owner is looking at a spreadsheet with two columns. One is salaries. The other is a software subscription. The second column is smaller, and the meeting is about how many names to move from the first column to the second. Before anything else, which spreadsheet. Some owners are looking at…

I Told You Not to Force AI on Your Employees. I Was Wrong. Force Them.

I wrote the soft version. I was wrong. A while back I published a piece telling business owners to stop selling AI to their employees. Resistance is fear, not stubbornness, I said. Mandates produce compliance theater. Run a two-week pilot on one task. Make the skeptics your evaluators. Credit the people, not the tool. Give…