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The 6 Laws of Organizational Physics

Physics Is Fundamental. Everything Else is an Opinion. Summary Insight: Most leaders are drowning in advice. This article gives you the one lens that cuts through it all—physics. Understand the six natural laws that govern every organization, including yours. Key Takeaways: Your organization is a complex adaptive system governed by energy, entropy, and motion. Misalignment with your environment—or internal friction—destroys

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The 5 Classic Mistakes in Organizational Structure: Or, How to Design Your Organization the Right Way

Design Your Business Like It Matters Summary Insight: Your business isn’t underperforming because of people—it’s the structure. If you want different results, redesign the system to drive them. Key Takeaways: Structure drives behavior—strategy shifts require structural realignment or entropy wins. Avoid classic structural failures: effectiveness buried under efficiency, long-term crushed by short-term. Great orgs balance autonomy and control, match roles

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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 The cycle is familiar: “The old tools like Myers-Briggs, DiSC, StrengthsFinder, or Culture Index are outdated.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 the modern worker’s needs. But this new model… this is the one.” Cue the book launch, the TED talks, and

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The Enterprise AI Stack: A CEO’s Guide to Real Leverage

Summary Insight: Cheap intelligence is everywhere. What separates winners from losers isn’t the tools on the shelf—it’s the architecture inside your business. Key Takeaways: AI architecture—not tools—determines leverage vs. chaos. Match your stack design to your company’s lifecycle stage. The Semantic Layer—context engine + knowledge graph—is the true accelerator. This article was originally published on Lex Sisney’s Enterprise AI Strategies

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Transform How You Lead

  If you’re leading a growing company, you’ve felt it: execution slows down, misalignment creeps in, and stress builds. It’s not because your people aren’t smart or dedicated. It’s because the system you’re running on can’t handle the complexity anymore. That’s why I created The 8-Week Shift – Organizational Physics Management Certification. It’s a live, cohort-based course designed for leaders

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When it comes to AI transformation, Airtable is half right

Summary Insight: Airtable’s AI shift proves the point: tools don’t transform companies—structure does. Get the rules right and AI fuels leverage; get them wrong and it multiplies chaos. Key Takeaways: Structure must match strategy—especially when AI changes the game. Effectiveness dies when buried under efficiency. Pilot AI at the edge, not under ops. Centralize data and knowledge, then decentralize decisions.

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From AI Individuals to AI Teams: The Real Inflection Point

Summary Insight: The next AI leap isn’t faster individuals—it’s augmented teams. The real edge comes from building a centralized AI brain that unifies humans and machines around shared context, speed, and scale. Key Takeaways: AI multiplies chaos or clarity—your context decides which. Tools without shared context stall; tools with it compound. The winning CEOs master context at scale as the

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The CEO as Chief Context Officer

Summary Insight: The CEO’s true job is shifting: in the AI era, they are the Chief Context Officer. Mastering context—shared meaning across humans and AI—is how companies beat the complexity tax and scale with speed. Key Takeaways: Complexity tax slows every growing company; context removes it. Technical context engineering enables organizational context engineering. AI amplifies context—clarity compounds, chaos multiplies. Most

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SWOT Guide Old

SWOT Guide Download Strategic alignment is the act of identifying and aligning a company’s unique and valuable capabilities with growing market opportunities. With the help of this guide and its associated SWOT analysis tools, your company can accomplish the equivalent of two to three months’ worth of strategic planning and alignment in just two days. Download the Strategic Alignment Workshop

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