Check Your Tower
Every tower that fell started with smart people being right in different directions.
Three questions reveal everything...
1. Can your
Too Simple?
Here's what happens when you introduce customer language to a marketing team...
The junior folks immediately get it.
One True North
Plot twist...
The Rosetta Stone didn't contain new information. It had the same message in three languages. Everyone
Five Right Answers
At Babel, God's intervention was instant and obvious.
Nobody pretended to understand each other. The project died immediately.
The Tower Nobody Finished
Here's what they don't tell you about Babel...
Nobody woke up speaking Mandarin.
They had the
Making Safety Visible
You can't measure psychological safety directly.
Ask "How safe do you feel?" and you've
The Resistance Paradox
When teams fight psychological safety practices, celebrate.
The resistance reveals exactly where dysfunction lives.
Toyota learned this implementing the andon
The 10% Solution
Toyota discovered something that sounds impossible:
Teams spending 10% of time improving HOW they work consistently outperform teams spending 100%
The Compound Cost of Silence
Problems have expiration dates for cheap solutions.
The O-ring concern surfaced in 1979. Cost to fix: A design modification worth
The Meeting That Never Happens
Picture a meeting where someone knows exactly why the project will fail.
They see the flaw, understand the consequences, stay