If nearly half your team is pretending to work, the real problem isn’t laziness—it’s leadership.

When your mission is fuzzy, KPIs are unclear, and communication is inconsistent, your team isn’t engaged—they’re surviving. And most leaders make it worse by tightening control instead of building culture.

In this episode, we break down how to fix the disengagement at its roots—starting with how you hire, how you lead, and how you design the systems your team runs on.

You’ll also hear:

• How “productivity theater” forms—and how to stop directing it

• The hiring mistake that kills accountability from day one

• Why the 5 C’s are the missing link between clarity and ownership

• How Human Needs Theory reveals what your team is really missing

• Why AI isn’t here to replace your team—it’s here to give you back the bandwidth to lead them

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In this episode, we tackle one of the most frustrating (and costly) leadership challenges: working with a team member who’s sure they’re performing… but everyone else sees the truth.

This isn’t just about ego—it’s about the collision between inflated self-worth and a lack of self-awareness. And if you don’t know how to handle it? It can quietly drag down your entire team culture.

We dig into the real danger of overconfident underperformers: why they resist feedback, how they confuse potential with performance, and what to do when coaching just isn’t working.

You’ll also hear:

--Why your highest-potential hire might be your biggest leadership risk

--The 5-question “Coachability Test” that reveals whether someone can grow—or needs to go

--How to stop giving feedback that bounces off, and start building systems that make expectations undeniable

--The real cost of keeping someone who thinks they’re crushing it, but keeps missing the mark

--How to use weekly scorecards, self-assessments, and alignment sprints to cut through the spin

Bottom line: You can’t build a business on ego. And you can’t grow a culture that tolerates spin. But you can create clarity, coachability, and accountability—if you lead with structure, not just hope.

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Show Notes: The AI Takeover — Tool or Trap?

In this episode, we pull back the curtain on the AI revolution—what it really means for small business owners, and why using it wrong could cost you far more than ignoring it altogether.

AI isn’t just a tech trend. It’s a leadership shift.

When used well, it creates white space—time to think, lead, and coach. When used poorly (or not at all), it traps you in the same reactive cycle you’ve been trying to escape.

We explore the “AI paradox” in real-world terms: how AI can create your structure and automate your admin but will never replace your relationships, and why your human connection is now your biggest competitive advantage.

You’ll also hear:

• Why Duolingo’s AI launch backfired—and what it teaches us about trust

• The 5 Cs your team needs to become strategic partners (and how AI can help you create them)

• How most business owners are burned out not from growth—but from doing what AI could have done for them

• The identity shift from operator to catalyst—and how AI makes that possible

Bottom line: AI won’t lead for you. But it will give you the structure and thespace to finally start leading like you were meant to.

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Visit aibusinessscalingblueprint.com and learn how to scale your systems and your leadership—together.