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Clifton Flack

Chief Commercial Officer, SLA Pharma

AI didn't make your next hire cheaper. It made them more expensive — and you should pay it. The small-team argument is right. Fewer people, same output. What nobody says out loud is what's left once you

subtract the producible work. Judgement. Taste. Knowing which of four plausible options survives contact with a real customer. That has always been the expensive kind of person. So yes, hire fewer. Just don't budget as though you're still hiring the person you no longer need. What's the last decision in your business that AI could have drafted, but only a person could have made? #Hiring #SmallTeams

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