Incremental Delivery Is Not a Process Choice. It Is a Discipline Choice.
Incremental delivery is not a process choice. It is a discipline choice.
If something cannot run in production, it does not qualify as a delivery. Each increment must change behaviour, be measurable, and live in production. Anything else is activity, not value.
The Sponsorship Gap
Organisations often claim to value senior expertise, systems thinking, and leadership maturity. Yet, they place experienced leaders or experts into complex roles without providing the conditions required for that expertise to matter.
Monday Myth: The Unicorn Fallacy
IT does not struggle because it lacks talent, frameworks, or ambition. It struggles because it has progressively disconnected from reality. Systems drifting too far from reality eventually collapse, regardless of how elegant they appear in presentations.
Friday Fun: Corporate Survival Field Manual
Survival is sometimes not a choice.
You stay because the market is irrational, because timing is wrong, because bills do not wait for ideology, and because leaving too early can be more damaging than staying longer than you should.
Stop Chasing Motivation. Start Building Purpose.
Modern organisations remain obsessed with motivation. Leaders search for it, stimulate it, demand it, and worry when it fades. This obsession is not harmless. It ranks among the most manipulative, draining, and corrosive habits of contemporary leadership.
Seniority, Impact, and the Wrong Questions
Why hiring for accumulation keeps organisations from scaling with leverage.
