Some leaders might think hiring an EA means having to give up their busy work, but with an EA to strategically manage my time, I have found they eliminate the busy work so no one has to do it. I get ...

With so many duties to juggle and schedules to maintain, executives simply can’t do it all themselves. To remedy this, many companies will hire executive assistants to help. Executive assistants are ...

During the first call I had with my executive coach, he asked me about my executive assistant (EA), and I told him that I didn’t have one. Without hesitation, he told me that if I didn’t have an ...

You have an executive assistant to help you with day-to-day tasks and responsibilities in your business. But there’s one glaring problem. You’re not effectively working with them on a regular basis.

Many entrepreneurs have one little quirk in common—we like to handle everything ourselves. Even with an excellent team of employees, we tend to take on far more work than anyone else, often fill in ...

Today's EA must be flexible, resourceful and highly communicative. The most successful EAs have a strong sense of urgency, think creatively about how to support leadership and consistently provide ...

But I wondered: How helpful are the bots, really, as actual assistants? It’s worth asking because our first rodeo with virtual assistants didn’t go so well. Older AI bots like Apple’s Siri and ...

As entrepreneurs, we are inundated with work and often don’t get to complete many tasks on our to-do lists. While we can’t compromise on the little sleep we get a night, we can hire an executive ...

Diego Oppenheimer, Seattle-based entrepreneur and investor, with his AI assistant “Actionary,” a personal project. (Photo via Oppenheimer) [Editor’s Note: Agents of Transformation is an independent ...