Essays

The exam that comes before the planning. Five panels, run before your offsite, so next year’s strategic plan starts from a diagnosis instead of…

For the first time in nearly three decades, I cannot find a durable, defendable position for a company to win over time. Here is…

The top is not lonely because you are alone. It is lonely because nobody near you carries the same weight. What the unsaid question…

Bloom’s taxonomy explains the gap between analyzing a problem and creating the playbook that solves it. These are modes of work a role demands,…

Micromanagement is usually a trust problem, and the roadmap out has three steps that start with you. Plus the honest flip side: when the…

A gut-check for idea-stage founders: could a friend describe your business in two sentences at a BBQ, and would people lean in? If not,…