by unthink | Jun 28, 2026 | Blog Post
We build organizations that look like us. At the center. Informed of everything. Signing off on the things that matter and plenty that don’t. It feels like leadership. It feels like being needed. Sam Goodner’s concept of decentralized decision-making...
by unthink | Jun 27, 2026 | Blog Post
We confuse busyness with strategy. We fill the calendar with reviews, standups, pipeline calls, and board prep, and we tell ourselves we are leading. We are not. We are managing. The two are not the same, and the gap between them is where companies stall. The...
by unthink | Jun 26, 2026 | Blog Post
Stockholm syndrome isn’t just a hostage story. It’s a boardroom story. A leadership story. A culture story. The leader who built the company keeps the team loyal to an idea that stopped working three years ago. Not through force. Through familiarity....
by unthink | Jun 25, 2026 | Blog Post
I sat watching a match the other night that I didn’t expect to stay up for. The South African team, ranked well below their South Korean opponents, walked onto the pitch against all reasonable expectation. The commentators were already narrating the inevitable....
by unthink | Jun 24, 2026 | Blog Post
We romanticize the result and forget the road that got us there. Parents know this. Ask one who is a few years past the hard years. Past the arguments and the ultimatums and the late nights, wondering if they were doing it right. There’s a sparkle in the eye...
