Harmonic Architecture
Systems / Tools / AI
The tools, data, and automation that set the ceiling on what the organization can do.
Writing on Systems / Tools / AI
13 issues
The offsite was the easy part
Your OKRs don't need better goals. They need an operating system.
Everything Should Have a Home
Why clarity is usually a containment or structure problem, not a thinking problem.
Improve the Time from Insight to Action
The metrics maturity model - four levels, and how each one shortens insight to action.
The Real Reason Your Problems Keep Coming Back
Most leaders end up in firefighting mode. Here’s why quick fixes don’t last, and how systems thinking changes the game.
Everything Changes When You Triple in Size
The Rule of 3 and 10. What worked at three people breaks at ten, and breaks again at thirty.
Your Habits are a Portfolio of Bets
Turning a vision into habits, and treating them like a portfolio you can rebalance.
Tactics for Creating Innovation from Bell Labs
What six decades at Bell Labs teaches about turning ideas into things that actually exist.
My Toolkit for Retaining Ideas from Everything I Read
Do you ever wish you had a better system for retaining and getting value from your reading and podcasts??
Your business, like Shrek and onions, has layers
Architecture affects the speed with which you can build new things or make changes to old things.
Speed without direction gets you nowhere
Speed without direction is just motion. Velocity is the number that actually matters.
What can a game about beer distribution tell us about organizational design?
Good people operating in a bad system create bad outcomes.
What cooking taught me about habit formation
Keep the schedule and change the scope — the rule that makes a habit survive a busy week.
You fall to the level of your systems
Goals are passive and sit in the future. Systems are the engine that actually gets you there.
The other eleven
No element fails alone. When one is out of tune the symptom usually shows up somewhere else in the ring.