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30
Sep
How to Waste Millions and Look Good Doing It
In the land of quarterly OKRs and endless alignment meetings, a new kind of leadership has risen. Not the visionary kind. Not even the competent kind. These are the high priests of organisational performance theatre.
5 min read
29
Sep
Why Change Always Pushes Back: Lessons from Le Chatelier and Lenz
Change represents a constant tension in every system, whether in physics, chemistry, or organisations. Yet change never proceeds in a linear fashion, nor does it occur without contest.
4 min read
25
Sep
![[Book][7.2]Constraint in Design: Architecture, Code, and Systems That Endure](/content/images/size/w750/2025/09/lego.png)
[Book][7.2]Constraint in Design: Architecture, Code, and Systems That Endure
8 min read
23
Sep
Broken Windows and Dysfunctional Teams
In criminology, the broken windows theory suggests that visible signs of disorder, such as a smashed window left unrepaired, invite further disorder. The same pattern applies in organisations.
3 min read
22
Sep
Let Them Fail: The Silent Power of Friction and Limits
Most people break because they fight too long for things that refuse to change. At some point, you must let the house burn, and step back a little with your time, your health, and your clarity intact.
5 min read
21
Sep
Expertise Is Overrated. Problem Solving Is Not.
A Simple Wire, A Familiar Lesson
The other day, I had to extend an electrical wire at home. I am
4 min read
18
Sep
Second Quantisation and the Dual Nature of Organisations
Modern organisations often split reality into two distinct planes: delivery and governance, execution and process, engineering and product. This partition is false. Not just inefficient. False.
4 min read
17
Sep
Grow Without Dying: A Leader’s Survival Guide in Fragile Times
Growth is supposed to be our highest calling. According to Jordan B. Peterson, it is the central purpose of our existence. But in today's organisations, growth has become a dangerous game, not because growth is wrong, but because the way we pursue it is broken.
4 min read
16
Sep
![[Book][7.1]Why Constraint Creates Better Outcomes Than Unlimited Freedom](/content/images/size/w750/2025/09/constrains.png)
[Book][7.1]Why Constraint Creates Better Outcomes Than Unlimited Freedom
6 min read
16
Sep
Variable Capacity Is Not Team Augmentation
The Fluid Organisation model introduces the concept of variable capacity and it can prove easy to confuse with the idea of team augmentation: hiring more people, bringing in contractors, or borrowing engineers from other teams.
3 min read