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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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