I thought more input would make me smarter.
But it just made me noisier.
Early in my career, I devoured every book I could find. I chased advice from mentors, peers, and so-called gurus. I experimented constantly—new tactics, new tools, new ideas.
I wasn’t lazy. I wasn’t uninspired.
But I was overwhelmed.
Because without a framework, all those ideas just clashed. I couldn’t tell the difference between good advice, bad advice, or good advice at the wrong time. Everything came in. There was no sorting function. The result? A constant swirl of mental noise.
What changed everything was realizing that smart leaders don’t collect ideas—they organize them. They use a framework that makes sense of complexity and grounds their decisions in context.
I spent years gathering and refining what became my uber-framework—the lens that finally made sense of a lot of the noise around me.
That shift was liberating.
Now it doesn’t really matter what changes around me—the market, the metrics, the team. Because I know how to place things. I know what matters, what’s signal, what’s entropy, and where to focus next.
The right framework turns chaos into clarity.
What frameworks have helped you the most in your life or leadership?
One element of my framework is the four forces (PSIU) that drive the behavior of every system. The best way to make this real is to apply it to your own leadership style and team. You can see it in action by taking the free PSIU Assessment: https://organizationalphysics.com/worlds-fastest-leadership-test/
—Lex, your CEO coach
📌 P.S. With age, I didn’t get louder. I got clearer. Frameworks gave me that clarity.
