by unthink | Aug 31, 2026 | Blog Post
Ten minutes to go. We’re ahead. We ease off. Sport calls this the fatal mistake: it’s never over until it’s over. Business keeps forgetting the lesson sport already learned. We build an advantage. Years of it. Somewhere in that success, we stop...
by unthink | Aug 28, 2026 | Blog Post
I read a piece this week by a cookbook author I adore, Katie Parla, about a pasta shop in Gloucester, Massachusetts, run by a woman named Danielle who has an opinion about everything. The correct flour. The right shape for your sauce. A better olive oil than the one...
by unthink | Aug 27, 2026 | Blog Post
I sat in a leadership meeting last month where the real issue never got said out loud. I could feel it. Everyone in that room could feel it. We talked around it for forty five minutes before I finally named it directly. The relief was immediate. Not because the...
by unthink | Aug 26, 2026 | Blog Post
Here’s a thing that shouldn’t surprise me anymore, but does. A leadership team gets a clear diagnosis. The meeting rhythm is broken, scorecards are inconsistent, and accountability is soft. We build the fix together. It’s specific – weekly...
by unthink | Aug 25, 2026 | Blog Post
I keep coming back to fugu. Not because I’ve eaten it (I haven’t, and I’m not sure I’d volunteer), but because of what it represents. A dish of pufferfish that carries enough toxin in the wrong tissue to stop a heart within hours, and there is...
