You Are Winning and Losing at the Same Time The Titanic had a full passenger manifest and a smooth crossing — right up until it didn't. Blackberry had market dominance and loyal enterprise customers — right up until it didn't. Nokia had scale, brand, and distribution...
Seeing Failure Clearly Medicine figured this out a long time ago. You don't wait until a patient collapses to run diagnostics. You build systems — regular check-ups, blood panels, imaging — specifically designed to catch what isn't visible yet. The whole premise is...
The Solution Looked Simple. The Landscape Got Harder. Are you simplifying or complicating? Someone presents you a solution. It solves the problem in front of you. The demo is clean, the logic sounds reasonable, and the timeline seems manageable. You approve it. Six...
Nobody Knows When to Quit When things don't work, you try to figure out a way through. You've invested time. You've invested resources. And at some point a question arrives that you can't answer cleanly: should I invest more, or am I just dealing with sunk cost? The...
Ground There's a thing I've been calling ground. It's the internal surface you stand on when you decide to act. To take a risk. To sacrifice something for what you want, or for what you believe in. It's made of trust, hope, and expectation — not grand versions of...
How to Improve Quality of Life There's no shortage of advice on this. Most of it circles the same territory — exercise more, sleep better, invest wisely, nurture your relationships. The advice isn't wrong. But it tends to treat each domain in isolation, as if...
Most ERP programs start at Step 4. That's Why It's Hard. A medium-sized construction and services company. Fourteen hundred employees. Operations across three states. Revenue growing, but the business starting to creak under its own weight. The CFO flags that...
The Biggest Cost There's a category of cost that doesn't show up in any budget. It doesn't appear in the project status report. The steering committee never discusses it. The CEO's end-of-year review doesn't capture it. And yet it compounds quietly — in lost capital,...