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The tool you're using to hire may already be a liability

One thing from the world this week

A federal lawsuit against Workday alleges its AI hiring tools systematically screened out older and minority applicants before a human ever saw their names. If you use any AI-powered applicant screening, your vendor's algorithm is making decisions you are legally responsible for. Review what your hiring software filters before it hands you a shortlist.

One thing someone else learned the hard way

Michael Gerber's point in *The E-Myth Revisited* is blunt: most people who start a business were excellent at a craft, not at running a company. The business needs a technician to do the work, a manager to organize it, and an entrepreneur to steer it. Most owners supply the first and exhaust themselves trying to fake the other two. That gap is where decisions get made by default, including which software to trust, which processes to skip, and which risks go unexamined until they land in a courtroom. Gerber's book earns its place on any owner's shelf.

One question to carry into the week
Which part of your business are you running on autopilot because you are too tired to look at it closely?

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