Escaping to focus

Every hard project reaches a moment when pushing stops working. We push anyway. More hours. More meetings. Another pass at the same spreadsheet. We tell ourselves the only alternative to perseverance is quitting, so we grind, and the problem stays exactly where it...

The noble excuse

We talk about retirement more than almost any other milestone. We save for it, count toward it, and describe it in the language of escape. Ask what comes next and the answer arrives as a shrug. Not this. Anything but this. A destination defined by what it leaves...

Before contact

We wait to be touched. That’s how most organizations are built. Something has to press hard enough for us to respond: a resignation, a missed number, a complaint that finally gets loud enough to hear. A touchscreen doesn’t work that way. Capacitive touch...

Plan the exit now

A key person leaves. Then the whispers start: is something wrong here? Then one or two more follow, and now everyone’s asking out loud. It looks sudden. It never is. There’s a question that has nothing to do with talent and everything to do with readiness:...

The wrong game

Chess is a beautiful lie. Two players. Perfect information. No hidden hands, no shifting alliances, no one bluffing about the state of the market. Business doesn’t work that way. The F1 team runs the sim because the track never gives you all the data at once....