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13
Jul
Monday Myth: Great Organisations Feel Dynamic

Monday Myth: Great Organisations Feel Dynamic

The highest compliment a passenger can give aviation is that nothing memorable happened. Perhaps the highest compliment customers can give an engineering organisation is exactly the same.
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12
Jul
Friday Fun: The Corporate Airport

Friday Fun: The Corporate Airport

Many organisations, however, quietly make that mistake, becoming exceptionally good at refining coordination, governance and process while gradually forgetting that these things exist only to support delivery
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09
Jul
Wednesday Reality: We Did Not Lose Engineers. We Stopped Engineering.

Wednesday Reality: We Did Not Lose Engineers. We Stopped Engineering.

Software proudly adopted the language of engineering, but somewhere along the journey it quietly abandoned many of its defining characteristics. The transformation was gradual enough to appear natural.
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07
Jul
Monday Myth: Success Creates Scalability

Monday Myth: Success Creates Scalability

What appears inefficient to someone measuring today's utilisation often represents resilience, flexibility and optionality for tomorrow. Spare capacity is not evidence of waste. It is evidence that the system was designed to survive its own success.
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05
Jul
Friday Fun: The Corporate Archaeologist

Friday Fun: The Corporate Archaeologist

Civilisations are not built in a single generation, and neither are they buried in one.The same principle, I recently discovered, applies surprisingly well to technology companies.
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02
Jul
Wednesday Reality: Your Organisation Is Steering by Yesterday

Wednesday Reality: Your Organisation Is Steering by Yesterday

The larger an organisation becomes, the greater the temptation to replace experience with representation. Distance feels efficient because it removes friction. It also removes sensation.
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30
Jun
Monday Myth: Success Makes Organisations Stronger

Monday Myth: Success Makes Organisations Stronger

When failure threatens existence itself, organisations cannot afford comfortable illusions. Waste becomes visible not through analysis but through necessity. Complexity must justify its presence because every additional element introduces risk.
8 min read
25
Jun
Wednesday Reality: Why More Reporting Creates Less Clarity

Wednesday Reality: Why More Reporting Creates Less Clarity

As industrial systems grew larger and more interconnected, understanding what was happening inside them became increasingly difficult. People had to interrupt productive work in order to explain productive work.
6 min read
23
Jun
Monday Myth: Progress Requires Complexity

Monday Myth: Progress Requires Complexity

The breakthrough is not always the technology itself. More often, it is the decision to remove unnecessary complexity so that everything else can scale.
5 min read
20
Jun
Friday Fun: A Visit to the Ministry of Organisational Progress

Friday Fun: A Visit to the Ministry of Organisational Progress

Recently, I was granted access to one such institution: The Ministry of Organisational Progress.The plaque above the entrance stated that its mission was to accelerate delivery. What follows are my observations.
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