Wolves Move Rivers
When Yellowstone's wolves were hunted to extinction, everyone knew what would happen. More elk.
What nobody predicted: rivers
Sequencing Creates Proof
You have five bets to make.
All seem important. All seem urgent.
So you launch them simultaneously.
Six months later,
Certainty Destroys Authority
The expert says "I don't know" and gains credibility.
The fraud pretends to know and loses
The Resistance Paradox
When teams fight psychological safety practices, celebrate.
The resistance reveals exactly where dysfunction lives.
Toyota learned this implementing the andon
The Motte and Bailey (Part 5 of 5)
You can't fix what you won't admit is broken.
Here's the uncomfortable truth: we&
The Motte and Bailey (Part 3 of 5)
Here's why both sides need the retreat:
Leaders need deniability. Teams need survival.
Your company is insane.
And
The Motte and Bailey (Part 2 of 5)
"Psychological safety"?
Look closer. It's a blame culture wearing a Halloween mask.
Every meeting has invisible
The Motte and Bailey (Part 1 of 5)
The Unnamed Pattern
There's a trick in every meeting.
Once you see it, you can't unsee
S2E4: The Paradox of Presence
We're drawn to contradictions.
What if the invisible strategy requires moments of deliberate visibility?
I used to think
The Presence Paradox
We chase excellence to earn trust.
But trust isn't earned through perfection.
It's built in imperfect