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What would you do with an extra 5 hours a week?

What would you do with an extra 5 hours a week?

That's how much time many professionals lose to email (if not more). Here's a plan to get that time back.

Pallas Advisory
July 16, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes

Welcome, AI Strategists

💫 Current thoughts: I have a confession to make: for years, my inbox owned me. I'd start my day by reacting to other people's priorities and end it feeling busy but not an inch closer to my actual goals. It was the biggest bottleneck in my entire business. I finally decided to stop complaining and treat it like any other broken business system: by designing a plan to fix it. The "Inbox Rescue Plan" is the result, and in this post, I'm sharing exactly how to leverage AI to help fix your inbox, too.

Weekly Blog

Your Inbox Isn't a To-Do List. It's a Thief.

Learn the "Inbox Rescue Plan," a strategic system for managing email overload and anxiety. This guide explains how to use AI tools to triage your inbox, summarize long threads, and automate replies, helping you turn a 60-minute daily task into a 5-minute briefing and reclaim your focus.

pallasadvisory.com/2025/07/15/inbox-rescue-plan

AI News Roundup for SMB Decision-Makers and Marketing Professionals

The real workplace threat isn't AI. It's leadership disconnect

The $4.4 trillion AI opportunity isn't just about technology adoption—it's about strategic differentiation. Smart leaders recognize that as AI handles the predictable, human leadership becomes the competitive advantage. The companies winning aren't just implementing AI; they're amplifying what makes them irreplaceably human.

www.fastcompany.com/91350816/the-real-workplace-threat-isn-ai-its-leadership-disconnect-ai-leadership-disconnect

How Businesses Can Adapt SEO for AI and Social Media Search | Entrepreneur

As AI and social platforms reshape how people search, traditional SEO tactics are no longer enough.

www.entrepreneur.com/growing-a-business/how-businesses-can-adapt-seo-for-ai-and-social-media-search/494093

Skip the AI ‘bake-off’ and build autonomous agents: Lessons from Intuit and Amex

The enterprise AI conversation has fundamentally shifted from "what can it do?" to "how do we govern it at scale?" Intuit and Amex demonstrate that successful agentic AI requires platform thinking…Their approach treats AI agents as a new operational discipline, not just a feature add-on, positioning them to capture real business value while maintaining enterprise-grade control.

venturebeat.com/ai/dont-wait-for-a-bake-off-how-intuit-and-amex-beat-competitors-to-production-ai-agents

How Small Businesses Can Kickstart Their AI Journey

The democratization of AI tools has shifted the challenge from technical capability to strategic focus. Rather than building complex systems, success comes from identifying high-impact use cases within existing workflows. Start with time-wasting tasks, validate with small experiments, then scale with ethical guardrails. Action beats analysis paralysis.

www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2025/07/15/how-small-businesses-can-kickstart-their-ai-journey

New report reveals which jobs most aligned with AI and which ones don’t, and it makes for uncomfortable reading

It might be time to consider other career options

www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/is-your-job-safe-from-ai-a-new-report-reveals-one-role-thats-surprisingly-at-risk

20 ‘Old Role/New Role’ Transitions For An AI-Dominated Work World

With creative thinking and adaptability, professionals can forge new paths and thrive in a work world increasingly shaped by AI.

www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2025/07/11/20-old-rolenew-role-transitions-for-an-ai-dominated-work-world

Will AI Agents really Automate Jobs at Scale?

How will the labor force react to more sophisticated AI agents.

www.ai-supremacy.com/p/will-ai-agents-really-automate-jobs

Prompt of the Week:

This prompt teaches an AI your unique writing style, so it can draft replies that sound authentically like you, not a generic robot. This saves you even more time on editing.

Act as my executive assistant. Your first task is to learn my writing style.

Step 1: Analyze Style

Analyze the style, tone, sentence structure, and vocabulary from the 3 emails I have pasted below under "[MY EMAILS]". Pay close attention to how I greet people, how I sign off, and my general level of formality.

[MY EMAILS]

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Email 1: [Paste a recent email you've written here]

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Email 2: [Paste another recent email here]

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Email 3: [Paste a third email here]

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Step 2: Draft Reply

Now, using the exact style you just learned, draft a professional and concise reply to the email below under "[INCOMING EMAIL]".

My reply needs to include these key points:

- [Key point 1]

- [Key point 2]

- [Any other details]

[INCOMING EMAIL]

[Paste the summary or text of the email you received here]

Draft the email reply now.

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