Is your leadership team unknowingly caught in an "expensive hobby" – drowning in $10-an-hour tasks while million-dollar strategies wait? Aarti Anand, an entrepreneur who champions escaping the daily grind, joins Innovation Tales to share how to reclaim this critical time. Discover a powerful framework to strategically automate internal operations and ensure every leader focuses only on work that either "lights them up" or "prints money" for the business. Key Takeaways Systems First, AI Second: Establish clear, repeatable systems before introducing AI. Automation scales effective processes but only amplifies chaos if your foundation is weak. Automate Internal Operations: Prioritize automating routine internal tasks to free leaders from low-leverage work, allowing them to focus on high-impact, strategic initiatives. Use the "Drip Matrix": Identify which tasks energize you or enrich the business. Keep those, and strategically delegate or find an automation solution for everything else.