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Posts on organizational agility, leadership and transformation — from practice, not the manual.
The AI Your Budget Isn't Buying
Thirteen of fourteen AI proposals for the budget were variations on the same idea. The fourteenth was the only one that touched the margin — and it got pulled from the deck.
Six Capabilities for Scaling AI, and the One Nobody Funds
The vocabulary of agentic AI has already reached the boardroom. The framework behind it has six capabilities — and two of them almost never get funded.
Domain-Driven Design Just Turned Twenty-Three, and Only Now Became Urgent
Five departments answered what an 'active customer' means, and all five were right. The problem isn't the ambiguity — it's that no AI agent is going to notice it before acting on it.
The Wall Was Always There
The tech team warned. The business prioritized the roadmap. Six months later, at the worst possible moment, the system collapsed. Technical debt isn't the problem — the incentive system that produces it, is.
When the Human System Stops Scaling
LeanIX went from twelve people to five hundred. The software architecture grew without major trauma. What didn't scale was the human system.
The Perfect Architecture That Never Arrived on Time
Months of design, review boards, exhaustive documentation — and by the time the project finally has something to show, the business has already moved on. Why the perfect architecture almost never arrives on time.
The Poisoned Apple
Many organizations spend all their energy trying to look like the photo of a 'well-run' company — without ever asking whether that photo is still the right destination.
Tokenmaxxing: The New Face of AI Theater
A team burned 40% more tokens this quarter. Nobody asked what got done with them. Tokenmaxxing is the new face of AI Theater — and it has three antipatterns behind it.
Are We Listening to the Piano Fall?
Chaplin's Tramp collapsed tightening bolts at a pace he couldn't negotiate. Ninety years later, we're the ones running the belt — and AI just sped it up.