Essay
The Problem You Think of versus the Problem You Have
Diagnose the real constraint before you spend on the wrong one
Ed Brzychcy
Essay
Done Beats Perfect
Shipping the first imperfect version beats perfecting it in the conference room
Essay
Where Execution Breaks
How to tell a buy-in problem from an execution-under-pressure problem, and why leadership teams keep misdiagnosing stalled initiatives.
Essay
The Plan was Never the Hard Part
Why strategies fail at execution, and how the knowing-doing gap closes through trained behavior, not better planning.
Essay
Stack-Ranking Came Back. It Just Changed Its Name.
A quota by any other name.
Culture
The Hidden Cost of Stack-Ranking Your Own People
The mechanism behind the feedback matters.
Essay
Backbone or Bottleneck
How organizational networks stratify — and what managers can do to fix it.
Leadership
The Backbone
The key to closing the gap between strategy and execution.
Essay
What We Lose When the Middle Goes
Why the 2026 middle management cuts at Amazon, Meta, and Citigroup are setting up the next failure cycle
Employee Engagement
What We’re Really Measuring
Why Amazon's AI usage targets are producing the gaming behavior they were meant to prevent
Essay
The Work That Holds Off Complacency
Knowing complacency is a problem doesn’t fix anything.
Learning and Development
When the Worst Vice Wears a Smile
Complacency kills.