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The Great Flattening: How AI Is Reshaping Teams and Management

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Welcome to a new episode of Business Lunch!In this episode, Roland Frasier and Ryan Deiss dive into "the great flattening"—the radical shift where AI enables entire departments, and even companies, to be run by a single person. They explore real-world examples from tech and traditional industries, discuss the risks and rewards of this new model, and offer practical advice for leaders and entrepreneurs. If you're a business owner, manager, or anyone interested in the future of work, this episode is for you!

Highlights:

"What if the highest performing marketing team at your company was actually just one person?"

"AI is compressing entire departments into individual 'departments of one.'"

"The coordination tax is the overhead of meetings, getting along, and not getting along."

"This may be the end of the middle manager and the rise of the player-coach."

Timestamps:

01:41 – Introducing "The Great Flattening" Concept

02:30 – WhatsApp: $345M Value Per Employee

03:30 – Midjourney & Cursor: Creative and Dev Pancakes

07:21 – The Coordination Tax Explained

11:18 – Team Size, Efficiency, and the Two Pizza Rule

14:25 – AI Agents Replacing Marketing Teams

22:35 – Risks of Single-Person Departments

26:53 – The End of Middle Management?

37:19 – The Pancake Test: Is Your Department "Pancakeable"?

54:20 – Digital Marketer’s Department of One Beta Program

CONNECT

• Ask Roland a question HERE.

RESOURCES:

• 7 Steps to Scalable workbook

• Get my book, Zero Down, FREE

To learn more about Roland Frasier 👉 https://msha.ke/rolandfrasier/

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Mentioned in this episode:

Get Roland's Training on Acquiring Businesses!

Discover The EXACT Strategy Roland Has Used To Found, Acquire, Scale And Sell Over Two Dozen Businesses With Sales Ranging From $3 Million To Just Under $4 Billion!

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Manage episode 496582548 series 2467485
Content provided by Roland Frasier. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Roland Frasier or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://podcastplayer.com/legal.

Welcome to a new episode of Business Lunch!In this episode, Roland Frasier and Ryan Deiss dive into "the great flattening"—the radical shift where AI enables entire departments, and even companies, to be run by a single person. They explore real-world examples from tech and traditional industries, discuss the risks and rewards of this new model, and offer practical advice for leaders and entrepreneurs. If you're a business owner, manager, or anyone interested in the future of work, this episode is for you!

Highlights:

"What if the highest performing marketing team at your company was actually just one person?"

"AI is compressing entire departments into individual 'departments of one.'"

"The coordination tax is the overhead of meetings, getting along, and not getting along."

"This may be the end of the middle manager and the rise of the player-coach."

Timestamps:

01:41 – Introducing "The Great Flattening" Concept

02:30 – WhatsApp: $345M Value Per Employee

03:30 – Midjourney & Cursor: Creative and Dev Pancakes

07:21 – The Coordination Tax Explained

11:18 – Team Size, Efficiency, and the Two Pizza Rule

14:25 – AI Agents Replacing Marketing Teams

22:35 – Risks of Single-Person Departments

26:53 – The End of Middle Management?

37:19 – The Pancake Test: Is Your Department "Pancakeable"?

54:20 – Digital Marketer’s Department of One Beta Program

CONNECT

• Ask Roland a question HERE.

RESOURCES:

• 7 Steps to Scalable workbook

• Get my book, Zero Down, FREE

To learn more about Roland Frasier 👉 https://msha.ke/rolandfrasier/

Connect with me on social:

🎵 TikTok:

/ rolandfrasier

📸 Instagram:

/ rolandfrasier

📱 Facebook:

/ rolandfrasierpage

💼 LinkedIn:

/ rolandfrasier

Subscribe to Roland Frasier 👉

/ @rolandfrasierepic

Mentioned in this episode:

Get Roland's Training on Acquiring Businesses!

Discover The EXACT Strategy Roland Has Used To Found, Acquire, Scale And Sell Over Two Dozen Businesses With Sales Ranging From $3 Million To Just Under $4 Billion!

EPIC Training

  continue reading

377 episodes

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