How to Build an AI-Powered Business Without Losing Control, Trust, or Your Mind

Second Edition

AI is already changing how decisions are made inside your business—often without your consent.

Teams are using artificial intelligence to draft plans, analyze data, shape customer communication, and move faster than ever. Productivity is up. Accountability is less clear. Many leaders feel pressure, noise, and a creeping loss of control, even when results look fine on the surface.

This book explains why.

How to Build an AI-Powered Business Without Losing Control, Trust, or Your Mind is a practical leadership guide for executives, founders, and managers navigating artificial intelligence in real organizations. It is not a technical manual. It is a leadership and management book focused on decision rights, accountability, trust, and organizational discipline.

In this fully revised Second Edition, Mo Rousso shows leaders how to use AI as a business tool without surrendering judgment or culture.

You’ll learn how to:
• Define clear decision-making authority between humans and AI
• Prevent artificial intelligence from quietly eroding accountability
• Build guardrails that scale across teams and departments
• Improve operational throughput instead of creating more noise
• Protect customer trust while increasing speed and efficiency
• Lead calmly and decisively in an AI-driven business environment

Each chapter includes real-world business case examples that show how AI adoption succeeds—or fails—in everyday companies, from operations and sales to leadership teams and customer service.

This book is ideal for:
• Business leaders and executives
• Founders and entrepreneurs
• Managers responsible for AI adoption
• Organizations integrating AI into daily operations
• Readers interested in artificial intelligence for business, leadership, and management

AI will continue to accelerate. Tools will keep changing.

Leadership responsibility does not disappear.

This book helps you stay in control when AI is everywhere.