18
Aug
The cure became the disease.
Slack was supposed to save us from email.
Instead, it broke our focus.
Email had boundaries—you checked it, then
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15
Aug
Check Your Tower
Every tower that fell started with smart people being right in different directions.
Three questions reveal everything...
1. Can your
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14
Aug
Too Simple?
Here's what happens when you introduce customer language to a marketing team...
The junior folks immediately get it.
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13
Aug
One True North
Plot twist...
The Rosetta Stone didn't contain new information. It had the same message in three languages. Everyone
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12
Aug
Five Right Answers
At Babel, God's intervention was instant and obvious.
Nobody pretended to understand each other. The project died immediately.
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11
Aug
The Tower Nobody Finished
Here's what they don't tell you about Babel...
Nobody woke up speaking Mandarin.
They had the
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08
Aug
Making Safety Visible
You can't measure psychological safety directly.
Ask "How safe do you feel?" and you've
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07
Aug
The Resistance Paradox
When teams fight psychological safety practices, celebrate.
The resistance reveals exactly where dysfunction lives.
Toyota learned this implementing the andon
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06
Aug
The 10% Solution
Toyota discovered something that sounds impossible:
Teams spending 10% of time improving HOW they work consistently outperform teams spending 100%
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05
Aug
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
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