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DontShipYourOrgChart

You Do Ship Your Org Chart — That’s the Point

“Don’t ship your org chart.” That’s the mantra software teams have repeated for decades—as if you could somehow outsmart the structure you work within. But Conway’s Law isn’t a suggestion to be clever. It’s a description of reality: Any organization

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OverthinkingIsntThinking

Overthinking Isn’t Thinking

Overthinking isn’t thinking. It’s just noise pretending to be insight. A few weeks ago, I met with a group of twenty-somethings — fresh graduates trying to figure out what to do with their lives. One of them asked how I

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7 Steps To Finding Hidden Leverage

7 Steps to Find Hidden Leverage in Any System

Inexperienced leaders to fix problems before they’ve diagnosed the system that creates them. They tweak incentives, shuffle roles, or launch new initiatives—without seeing the structure underneath. Then they wonder why the same friction keeps reappearing. Every organization is a living

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Enterprise AI Teach AI To Be Contrarian

The Secret Advantage of a Contrarian AI

Summary Insight: Most enterprise AI agrees; it doesn’t think. Anchor it in first principles and a centralized context engine to get signal, not applause. Key Takeaways: Consensus scales mediocrity; first principles create breakthroughs. Centralize context; train AI to probe and

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MoreEffortStopsWorking

When More Effort Stops Working

When complexity compounds, leverage—not hustle—wins. There’s a point in every growing company where the wheels start to wobble. Not because people stopped caring. Because the system can’t carry the load. More meetings. More firefighting. Less throughput. This Thu, Oct 16

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Towerofbabel

Another Personality Test? Why I’m Not Impressed

Every few years, a new personality style model bursts onto the scene, promising to crack the code on what motivates people. The cycle is familiar: “The old tools like Myers-Briggs, DiSC, StrengthsFinder, or Culture Index are outdated. They don’t capture

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OP 6 Laws Of Organizational Physics

The 6 Laws of Organizational Physics

You can’t outwork physics. You can only work with it. Many of us try to scale through effort— but effort without alignment always burns out. Here’s the truth: Your business follows the same universal laws that govern everything else in

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