The founder
Eighty percent of people at work
are miserable or checked out.
That is not my opinion. It is the 2026 Gallup workplace data: only about
one in five people is genuinely engaged at work, and it has been getting worse rather
than better.
I spent thirteen years inside businesses across three continents, with
three engineering degrees, watching the same thing everywhere. It was never a motivation
problem or a training problem. It traced back to the mind of the person who built the
business.
It traces back to the founder. Most open with a personal dream and no
clear purpose, build from a small view of what the thing could be, and end up trapped
inside the business along with everyone else. Until the founder's mind shifts, nothing
else shifts. You can hand them the best systems in the world and they will fight every
one of them.
So the work starts with seeing. What you have. What is missing. Who you
have to become. Nothing outside changes on that day, and the whole thing looks different,
because now you can see it.
I trained personally with Michael E. Gerber, who wrote The E-Myth. Today
the work is installing AI systems inside small businesses, on your machine, in your
accounts, built around the person doing the work rather than in place of them. Same
purpose as ever: give somebody their business back, and their life with it.