by unthink | Jun 6, 2026 | Blog Post
I was working with a logistics company a while back. Solid team. Decent margins. Good people who showed up and did the work. But there was something flat about the place. Functional. Just not alive. I asked the operations manager when they last celebrated something....
by unthink | Jun 2, 2026 | Blog Post
You can find a great deal at the vintage market. That is not what this is about. There is a category of secondhand that looks like wisdom, feels like strategy, and passes for leadership. It is none of those things. It is borrowed. And borrowed, in business, is rarely...
by unthink | May 23, 2026 | Blog Post
We tell ourselves we are measured, rational, composed. Then we pick up our phones. On a train recently, watching a stranger scroll, something became clear. Within minutes, her face moved through joy, concern, hurt, and quiet approval. She didn’t notice. No one...
by unthink | May 18, 2026 | Blog Post
We announce the change and assume the work is done. It never is. Change has a curve. John Fisher formalized it. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross described its emotional architecture long before business adopted the concept. The curve moves through denial, resistance,...
by unthink | May 12, 2026 | Blog Post
The founder gets the answer at 11 pm. She fires off the email. By morning, she wishes she hadn’t. We treat speed as a virtue. Respond fast. Decide fast. Ship fast. Move fast. But the brain has a different operating system running in the background that works...