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You Don’t Choose Your Direction
You Don't Choose Your Direction. You Choose Your Problems. Your direction in life isn't something you decide once and then follow. It's a byproduct — the residue left behind by the kind of problems you keep choosing to solve, repeated often enough that it hardens...
Cure for Parasites
The Body Has a Cure for Parasites. The Mind Has None. Watch an animal weakened by a parasite and you see something almost unbearable to look at — a creature slowly drained of the energy it needs to live, with very little agency to stop what's happening to it. If it's...
Governance Protects the Boundaries
Governance Protects the Boundaries. One of the key functions of project assurance and governance rarely gets said out loud: it exists to protect boundaries. Not to police people, not to slow anyone down — to protect the line between what's approved and what isn't,...
Every Trick Has a Price
Every Trick Has a Price. It's Paid in Trust. Every ERP vendor has a version of the same script. The upsell that arrives once you're committed. The contract clause that makes leaving harder than staying. The auto-renewal nobody points to until it's already renewed. The...
If It Doesn’t Move the Needle, It’s Clutter
If It Doesn't Move the Needle, It's Clutter The developed world runs on abundance. Food, clothes, ideas, freedom, words, information, data, technology — none of it is scarce anymore. Leadership operates inside that same abundance. More slides, more talking points,...
How to set up a project for success?
How to set up a project for success? Most people trying to make a project succeed spend their energy on the wrong end of it. They manage harder — more meetings, more chasing, more heroic effort when things slip. Success isn't manufactured there. It's set up before the...
Change Fatigue Is Real. So Is Change Endurance.
Change Fatigue Is Real. So Is Change Endurance. "Change fatigue" is the phrase that closes a conversation now. Someone names it in a steering committee, everyone nods, and the initiative gets softened, delayed, or quietly shelved — because naming the fatigue feels...
The Hero Runs on Autopilot
The Hero Runs on Autopilot You don't decide to be the hero of the meeting. You just are, by the time you notice. Someone raises an issue with your part of the plan and you're already composing the defence before they've finished the sentence — not because you chose...
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