The Math That Should Terrify Every Executive
6/16/202619 min
72% of your time is being eaten by coordination, communication, and admin. That leaves 28% for actual strategy. That is not a productivity problem. That is a math problem.
Most leaders use AI to do their admin faster. They put a turbo engine on a car that is driving in the wrong direction. The win is not doing the 72% faster. The win is deleting it.
In this solo episode I break down what "work slop" is, why flow state makes you 500% more productive, and the three questions that decide what you hand to a machine. Then I share how cutting low-value work out of my sales team's day lifted close rates by 10%.
I built and sold Rogue Risk on an operational model called the human optimized system. Today we call it easy mode. I have spent 20 years creating online and helping leaders turn chaos into clarity, and I have a book by the same name coming in September 2027.
If one idea here lands, run the three-day time audit this week. Then come tell me what you cut.
I help founders & executives generating more than $10M in revenue find their Easy Mode. Start here: https://ryanhanley.com/subscribe
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72% of your time as an executive is being eaten by coordination, communication, and admin. That leaves only 28% for actual strategy work, for vision work. That's not a productivity problem. That's a math problem, and the math is telling you that you're not actually doing your job. If you're new here, my name is Ryan Hanley. I built and sold an insurance company called Rogue Risk. We were acquired specifically for an operational model that we developed called the Human Optimized System. Now, the idea is simple. We use technology to eliminate the work that steals humans from their high-value output. Let the humans do human things, let the machines do machine things. But that's not the case for a lot of businesses. Now, today, we call that easy mode. I actually have a book coming out by the same title in September of 2027, which I know is a ways away, but if you wanna follow along with the journey, there's a link below in the description for you to do that. Now, here's where most people go wrong, most executives. They, they hear that stat and they think, "Well, I need better tools. I need a AI to help me move through those 72% tasks faster," and that's just flat wrong. The win here for executives isn't doing the 72% faster. The win is deleting those 72% of admin, communication, and coordination activities from