Execution
Recent
Most businesses do not have an idea problem.
Leadership teams rarely run out of ideas. They run out of the conditions that let good ideas survive contact with the operating week.
Insights
Thinking out loud.
Short pieces on the parts of business that are easy to describe and hard to change.
Strategy
Recent
Strategy rarely fails in the strategy meeting.
The plan is usually sound on the day it is written. What follows — sequencing, ownership, capacity — is where it quietly comes apart.
AI
Recent
AI will expose bad operations faster than it fixes them.
Automating an unclear process produces an unclear process at speed. Adoption is an operating problem before it is a technology problem.
Leadership
Recent
The founder bottleneck nobody wants to talk about.
When every meaningful decision routes through one person, growth stops being a strategy question and becomes a calendar question.
Full essays are published periodically. If a particular topic is useful to your team, it is often a better conversation than an article.
Better questions
create better outcomes.
Most business problems survive because everyone is busy solving the visible problem.