What is the most expensive asset in your company, organization, or team?
Your people, of course.
When executives, bosses, and number-crunchers look at the spreadsheets, and especially if those spreadsheets get shown to the shareholders, the human assets are the no-duh place to “optimize.”
Adding machines to the picture intoxicates those same lever-pullers beyond their ability to control themselves. Now, they can sell the story of ramping up productivity while minimizing cost.
The perfect solution. Easy pickens to maximize a bonus. Next quarter’s gonna shine.
But what is the most important asset of your company, organization, or team?
Your people, of course.
You can optimize your productivity, cost, and profit margins by replacing people with purpose-built machines for the next quarter or several quarters. But then the world changes, and your machines get confused, clunky, and petulant. Machines don’t change. Even AI-powered ones.
Automating with machines isn’t about replacement. It’s about enhancement.
A human with a drill is 1000X more resilient and adaptable than a drill press with an AI brain.
