Unclear roles look like collaboration failures. The fix is decision rights, not more meetings. You can usually tell when a project is dying. It doesn’t die dramatically. There’s no meeting where someone declares it. It dies in slow motion, usually in a Slack thread that stops getting replies, in a “let’s circle back next week” that never gets put back on the calendar, or in one more review nobody asked for. How many projects in your company are quietly dying right now? I’ve w

Why "we just need better culture” is the wrong diagnosis, and what behavioral infrastructure looks like instead. Your company has core values. They’re probably posted somewhere like a website, a wall, an all-hands deck. Here’s the question worth asking honestly: do those values actually change how decisions get made on a Tuesday afternoon when nobody’s watching? For most companies, the honest answer is no, and that’s not a values problem. It’s a design problem. I hear this al

Most leaders think AI is breaking their managers. The data tells a different story: managers were already the problem. Here's what AI actually exposed and what leaders should do about it.

You Already Have HR. The Question Is Whether You Built It on Purpose. Where the people function is hiding in your 10–50 person company, and what to do once you can see it. At 22 people, your CFO has accidentally become your comp policy. Your EA has accidentally become your culture officer. Your head of ops has accidentally become your people manager, running performance reviews, mediating Slack fights, and writing offer letters at 11pm. You, the founder, are doing the highest

How many decisions are sitting in your inbox right now that have nothing to do with your strategy? By the end of this post, I want you to understand exactly why that is and what to do about it.

Most AI rollouts fail in the exact same place. Not the technology. Not the budget. The people part. Your employees are scared. Quietly. "Is this replacing me?" Those questions don't disappear because you didn't address them. They go underground. AI adoption isn't a software deployment. It's a culture shift. Here's what the companies getting it right understand.

Most leadership regret doesn't come from bad decisions. It comes from the delayed ones.