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continuous improvement

30
Sep
How to Waste Millions and Look Good Doing It

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

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

[Book][7.2]Constraint in Design: Architecture, Code, and Systems That Endure

8 min read
22
Sep
Let Them Fail: The Silent Power of Friction and Limits

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.

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

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
16
Sep
[Book][7.1]Why Constraint Creates Better Outcomes Than Unlimited Freedom

[Book][7.1]Why Constraint Creates Better Outcomes Than Unlimited Freedom

6 min read
16
Sep
Variable Capacity Is Not Team Augmentation

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
15
Sep
Constraints Are Not Chains

Constraints Are Not Chains

In many organisations, the word constraint carries a negative connotation. Leaders speak about removing constraints, breaking free from them, or working around them. Yet in reality, constraints often create the very conditions for excellence.
4 min read
12
Sep
The Lost Art of Slicing or Why Teams Forgot How to Deliver Incrementally

The Lost Art of Slicing or Why Teams Forgot How to Deliver Incrementally

Somewhere between “strategic alignment” and “modular design”, both product and platform teams quietly reintroduced the worst parts of waterfall. Here is why that matters, and how systems thinking can help.
5 min read