When winning blinds us

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...

The prescription we stop taking

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...

The fugu license

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...

Borrowing discipline from the pros

I keep coming back to sports. Not the highlight reels. The infrastructure behind them. Few organizations chase performance with the discipline you find in professional sports. The planning, role clarity, and sheer demand for week-over-week improvement are on a...

What fantasy football has taught me

I love Fantasy Premier League. Genuinely. It engages me, frustrates me, and gives me real joy in ways that surprise people who don’t play. Part of it is the strategy. Part of it is the constraints: a fixed budget, a limited number of moves, rules that...