Ownership Signals Accountability
You've heard this phrase in strategy meetings: "We should probably..."
Probably expand. Probably pivot. Probably invest.
The Shadow Strategy
Your budget, your calendar, and your promotion list don't lie. Everything else might.
Four Identical Pairs
In 1977,
Why Handoffs Kill
She asked for water.
Sorrel King had been watching her eighteen-month-old daughter recover from burns covering more than half her
The Series B Death Spiral
You're about to make four mistakes simultaneously. And they don't add. They multiply.
Your startup just
The Dunbar Trap
There's a number written into your brain. It determines how many people you can actually work with.
There&
Conway's Law
Your org chart is your architecture. Whether you want it to be or not.
In 1967, a programmer named Melvin
The Andon Paradox
The tool is never the constraint. The permission to use it is.
In 1984, Toyota took over a General Motors
Encoding Judgment
You've watched this happen. The person who "just knows" which customer requests matter. Who can feel
Why Faster Beats Better
Speed of learning beats quality of planning. The organization with the fastest loop wins.
In 1950, the U.S. Air
When Abundance Becomes Enemy
If you can't name what you're NOT doing, you don't have a strategy. You
