Buzz Posts

10/16/2026

https://cmo.micro.blog/2026/10/16/where-operations-consultants-find-hidden.html

Accelerating revenue velocity often comes down to trimming internal review cycles and approval bottlenecks, but cutting too deep risks losing process governance. Kamyar Shah details how a business efficiency consultant audits sales cycle duration, rep productivity, and conversion rates to fix...

10/12/2026

https://kamyarshah.com/injury-rates-by-establishment-size-industry-soii-2024/

BLS 2024: in 8 of 17 eligible industries with all five size classes published, nonfatal injury and illness rates peaked at 50 to 999 employees.

10/12/2026

https://kamyarshah.com/sba-acquisition-loan-charge-offs-by-sector-beside-firm-deaths/

Non-cancelled SBA 7(a) change-of-ownership loans, fiscal 2018 to 2020: 2.03% charged off in five years. In 13 sectors the rate ranked with firm deaths.

10/12/2026

https://kamyarshah.com/separations-and-job-destruction-at-firms-aged-0-to-1-census-2023/

Census 2023, age 0 to 1, 49 jurisdictions: 129.4 separations per 100 average beginning-of-quarter jobs, 16.9 jobs destroyed per 100 BDS denominator jobs.

10/12/2026

https://kamyarshah.com/business-consultant-fees-ai-assistants/

All four AI assistant API configurations gave comparable hourly answers on two consultant fee questions. Their medians differed by 2.25x to 2.67x.

10/05/2026

https://kamyarshah.com/owners-previous-business-sold-or-closed-census-abs-2023/

Census 2023: among responding employer-firm owners with an earlier business they started, 5.5% said the latest one was sold and 16.5% said it had closed.

10/05/2026

https://kamyarshah.com/1-to-4-vs-250-employee-businesses-ai-training-census-btos-2026/

Census survey: among businesses using AI, 13.4% with 1 to 4 employees reported training current staff to use it, against 31.4% with 250 or more.

08/11/2026

https://salesroadmaps.com/leadership-consultant/

Expert guide: leadership consultant. Practical strategies from Kamyar Shah, B2B sales and operations consultant.

08/06/2026

What a Fractional COO Actually Installs Before Walking Away

https://coo.micro.blog/2026/08/06/what-a-fractional-coo-actually.html

08/05/2026

Cost-Cutting That Does Not Cut Costs
https://coo.micro.blog/2026/08/03/cost-cutting-that-does-not.html