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Optimize Individuals or Optimize Teams? Binary Business - BB-14

A company gave every employee an AI assistant. Individual output doubled. Six months later, project completion rates were down 15%. Everyone was faster. The company was slower. They optimized the parts and broke the machine.

In this episode, I break down why individual AI productivity gains often hide organizational inefficiency, and how to diagnose whether your bottleneck is individual speed or team coordination before you deploy another tool.

What You'll Learn:
• The highway metaphor — turbocharging every car doesn't fix traffic (it just makes angrier drivers)
• How a product team shipped SLOWER after giving everyone AI coding assistants
• The NASCAR pit crew problem — five world-class crew members, nobody assigned positions, all running to the same tire
• A sales team sent 3x more emails and got 50% fewer responses — "I don't even remember who I emailed yesterday"
• The top performer who reported team optimization to HR as "unfair" (because the system exposed her cherry-picking)
• The one-liner: "Measure what the customer experiences, not what the employee produces"
• The fastest-person-removal test for diagnosing your real bottleneck

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Timestamps:
0:20 - Context: The Productivity Trap Nobody Talks About
2:30 - Binary 1: Optimize Individuals
5:00 - Binary 0: Optimize Teams
8:00 - ABCD Breakdown
8:15 - Audience: Individual Metrics vs. Organizational Results
10:30 - Build: Lifecycle Mapping vs. Tool Deployment
12:30 - Convert: When Heroes Sabotage Systems
14:30 - Deliver: Diagnose-Match-Measure Framework
16:30 - The Call: Where Does the Work Sit?

About William Guidry:
Will Guidry is CEO and Founder of EntreNova AI, a Houston-based Microsoft Cloud Solutions Partner. He helps operators diagnose whether AI should target individual speed or team coordination, using the Binary Decision Scorecard framework.

Previous Episode: BB-13 - Trust AI Outputs or Require Human Review?
Next Episode: BB-15 - AI for New Hires or Veterans?

Binary Business is a business decision podcast for operators navigating AI.

Each 10-15 minute episode breaks one AI decision into a clear binary choice using the ABCD framework: Audience, Build, Convert, Deliver.

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Season 2 (Apr-Jun): How systems break when AI scales
Season 3 (Jul-Sep): Where AI moves money
Season 4 (Oct-Dec): How to execute AI decisions

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