Mel,
That's the definitive quote from my client survey last December.
I thought we'd be further by now.
It keeps coming up. Different industries. Different revenue sizes. Different levels of marketing sophistication.
Meanwhile, on a Roundtable call last month, I heard this:
"A lot of this just fell in our lap. We weren't chasing it. The market finally caught up to what we were already good at."
"The business feels like it's pulling us forward instead of us pushing it all the time."
"What used to feel like constant effort is now mostly leverage."
Same economy. Same market pressures. Completely different experience.
These are not different skill levels.
They're different structures.
One group found what was broken and fixed it. The other is still pushing.
The people who wrote "I thought we'd be further by now" are not lazy or unskilled.
They're stuck because the foundation has a crack in it.
No amount of work on the floors above fixes a cracked foundation.
This is exactly what Scott Schang has been diagnosing in RenAI: entrepreneurs who are doing the right things but getting the wrong results, because something structural is off in ways they can't see from the inside.
On my live webinar March 11 at 2:30 PM Eastern, Scott is going to walk through what he's been finding. Real cases. Real constraints.
Real breakthroughs once the structure got fixed.
Plus he'll reveal his latest diagnostic tool "The Structural Scan." A tool that looks at your specific business through the lens of my frameworks and tells you what generic AI cannot: what's structurally broken and where the real leverage is.
The K-shaped economy is separating people fast.
The question worth sitting with is simple:
What do the people shooting up the ARM of the K know that those sliding down the LEG of the K do not?
March 11 is where you'll get some answers.
Register here.
Seize the day,
Perry