The Expertise Trap: When Knowledge Becomes a Liability
Your hard-won expertise might be the very thing preventing you from seeing what's next
Your Organizational Chart Is Fiction
The neat boxes and lines on paper have almost nothing to do with how your organization actually works.
The Talent Paradox: Why A-Players Often Destroy Teams
Stacking your roster with superstars often creates dysfunction, not dominance—here's what actually builds winning teams
The Founder's Curse: When Vision Becomes Blindness
The vision that built your company may now be the obstacle preventing its evolution
Why Growing Too Slowly Kills More Companies Than Growing Too Fast
The risks of cautious growth are invisible until they're irreversible—slow failure doesn't announce itself
The Innovation Theater: Why Most Companies Fake Creativity
Most corporate innovation is expensive performance art that changes nothing—here's how to spot the difference and build genuine creative capability
Why Consensus Kills Good Decisions
How the pursuit of universal agreement produces mediocre outcomes and what effective leaders do instead
Why Your Worst Customers Shape Your Business
The customers you tolerate determine the company you build—choose them as carefully as you choose your strategy.
The Partnership Myth: Why Most Business Partnerships Fail
Understanding the hidden structural failures that doom business partnerships before they begin—and the design principles that prevent them
The Strategy Trap: When Planning Becomes Procrastination
Discover why the most dangerous business plans are the ones that never leave the conference room, and how minimum viable strategy beats maximum analysis.
The Customer Feedback Illusion
Why customer suggestions often mislead and how behavioral observation reveals what people actually need from your business
Why Perfect Processes Create Brittle Organizations
The hidden danger of running too lean and why strategic slack protects your organization from unexpected disruption
The Accountability Vacuum: Where Responsibility Goes to Die
Why your projects stall when everyone owns them, and how single-owner accountability transforms organizational results
Why Flat Organizations Eventually Create Shadow Hierarchies
Discover why eliminating formal hierarchy doesn't eliminate power dynamics and how to design structures that actually work
Your Competitor's Weakness Is Not Your Opportunity
Learn why the best companies ignore competitor weaknesses and double down on their own unique strengths instead
The Hidden Cost of Yes: Why Saying No Saves Your Business
Learn how strategic rejection of opportunities creates the focus that transforms good businesses into exceptional ones
The Delegation Paradox: Letting Go to Gain Control
Master the counterintuitive art of achieving greater organizational control by empowering teams with genuine autonomy and accountability systems
Your Best Employee Is Killing Your Company
How organizational heroes become hidden liabilities and why the strongest companies build systems that don't need superstars to survive
Your Business Model Is Eating Your Strategy
Why brilliant strategies fail when they clash with the invisible constraints of how your company actually makes money
The Meeting That Should Have Been an Email (And Vice Versa)
Master the art of choosing between real-time collaboration and thoughtful asynchronous work to multiply your team's effectiveness
The Profit Paradox: Why Focusing on Money Loses Money
Discover why companies obsessed with margins fail while those ignoring profits build empires
Why Most Companies Die at 150 Employees
Discover the hidden organizational breaking point that destroys growing companies and learn how to build systems that scale beyond human limits