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Building Organizational Stability and Value
Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF): I recently had the opportunity my framework on growing an organization's stability and value, to avoid grow leading to "house of cards" fragility and then moderated a great panel with three CEOs sharing their battle scars on scaling beyond the "
How Aggressive Should You Make Your Strategic Goals?
BLUF/Summary Create a culture where goals are challenging enough that meeting 70–90% is considered a massive win. If your team is hitting 100% of their targets every quarter, you aren't setting goals; you’re just documenting current capacity. The Tension of Ambition Finding the right tension
Enabling Rapid Trust with Gestalt Language Protocol
The Trap: Communication Friction In small or rapidly scaling organizations, "tribal knowledge" often includes unwritten, and often destructive, communication habits. When pressure rises, leaders often default to "You" statements—"You missed the deadline" or "Why are you being defensive?" These are verbal
Compass vs. Clock: Why Efficiency is a Secondary Metric
The Efficiency Trap In a recent piece, Scott Young revisited Stephen Covey’s classic concept of the Compass vs. the Clock. In our current "speed-at-all-costs" AI environment, this distinction has never been more vital. Most leaders are obsessed with the Clock: How fast can we ship? How many