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Big firms survive AI agent sprawl because they have a CIO; your small business doesn't. Here's a simple three-step protocol to contain it by yourself.
Bootstrapping is a stage, not a virtue. Here's how to spot when refusing outside capital stops protecting your growing business and starts capping it.
AI was meant to lighten the mental load. For its heaviest users it's added a hidden one — supervising the machines. Here's how to set sane boundaries.
A customer faked a raw-chicken photo with ChatGPT to scam a DoorDash refund. AI refund fraud has flipped the trust playbook every small business runs.
The agentic convergence trap: when every rival runs the same AI, the plans converge. Your real edge is judgement, taste and the data nobody else owns.
The AI and jobs panic points at the bottom rung. The real squeeze is in the middle, the reskilling remedy is hollow, and much of it is simply theatre.
The annual plan soothes more than it predicts. When volatility is the baseline, get good at deciding well and often, not at forecasting it any better.
Growth doesn't kill small businesses on a bad idea. It exposes operational debt — and it breaks in a predictable order. Here's how to get ahead of it.
Gerber taught founders to build a business that runs without them. My new free book is about building one that can think for itself — and stays yours.
When owners feel overwhelmed, a senior hire looks like the fix. Usually it's a process failure in disguise, so diagnose the breakdown before you hire.