Culture
Your Real Values Are Written in the Promotion List
Every company runs two value systems, and the one you reward always beats the one on the wall.
Strategy
Essay
The Plan Was Never the Problem
Why teams that know exactly what to do still don’t, once the pressure is on.
Leadership
Why capability walks out the door
The execution problem hiding in your best people, and why the obvious fix makes it worse
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
Stack-Ranking Came Back. It Just Changed Its Name.
A quota by any other name.
Essay
Backbone or Bottleneck
How organizational networks stratify — and what managers can do to fix it.
Essay
The Hollow Middle
Engagement Starts in the Middle, yet is rarely focused there.
Strategy
On Gallup’s 2026 Workplace Report
The Finding Is Right. The Protocols Are the Harder Question.
Essay
The network you can’t see is the one running your company
Internal Connections Go Beyond the Org Chart
Strategy
Innovation is a relationship, not a moment
Responding to Andrew Blackman’s “The Myth of the Lone Inventor Is Largely Just That—a Myth”
Essay
A Warning for AI from the Age of Enlightenment
Two hundred years later, we have better tools, better data, and no excuses
Essay
What Lewis and Clark Can Teach Us About Leading People Through AI
We’ve navigated unmapped territory before. The pattern is older than we think.