Beyond best practice, toward the right way.
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Remote team communication problems come from structure, not skill. The five that recur on distributed teams, why each happens, and what to change first.
November 2, 2026 · 11 min read
The early signs of a dysfunctional remote team are quiet: silent meetings, private workarounds, buried mistakes. Here's how to spot them before they compound.
November 2, 2026 · 11 min read
Most leaders default to carpentry: blueprints, optimized machines, fixing people. The real skill is knowing when a challenge calls for the carpenter and when for the gardener.
December 18, 2025 · 9 min read
How organizations manufacture meaning when authenticity becomes simulation—and what leaders can do to restore the conditions for realness.
October 26, 2025 · 18 min read
Why do well-intentioned CEOs become power maximizers? Mearsheimer's offensive realism shows how structural conditions turn cautious leaders into aggressive competitors.
October 1, 2025 · 14 min read
What if the knowledge that bankrupts strategy is the knowledge you literally can't keep in mind? Organizational forgetting, and where institutional memory fails to form.
June 1, 2025 · 10 min read
Why boards praise bold vision but fund incremental change, and how to bridge the risk gap that keeps organizations stuck
May 26, 2025 · 9 min read
Modern firms are converging on one template, from management dashboards to office murals. How a new "control society," part iron cage and part software panopticon, is flattening innovation.
May 26, 2025 · 13 min read
Every new CEO inherits structures that once enabled growth and now constrain it. Lessons from JCPenney and Microsoft on seeing, navigating, and reshaping those constraints.
May 25, 2025 · 10 min read
Beyond best practice, toward the right way. Exploring leadership, strategy, and organizational dynamics through systems thinking and structural analysis.
May 25, 2025 · 3 min read
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