Our blog, Is Urgency Your Real Choice?, challenged the idea that urgency is just a byproduct of being busy. It’s often a signal. A symptom. A choice to live without alignment.This post picks up from there…not with theory, but with… Read More »Spotting Misalignment in 30 Minutes or Less
It starts with a familiar rhythm.Morning check-ins. Slack pings. A client fire. A vendor delay. A manager who’s out sick. A project deadline that’s now suddenly “urgent” — even though it’s been on the calendar for three weeks.You jump in.… Read More »Is Urgency Your Real Choice?
The Bottleneck at the Coffee Shop You walk into your favorite café. The line’s long. Not because the place is slammed — it’s just stuck.There’s one barista at the counter. She’s taking orders, steaming milk, ringing people up, wiping down… Read More »How to Tell If You’re Still the System
August has this strange rhythm to it.Half the team is at the beach. The other half is answering emails, sort of. Projects move slower. Meetings start later. You can feel the hum of the business start to fade just a… Read More »It’s Late Summer. Are You the Only One Pushing?
I recently read a post on Medium titled “The Death of Agile.”While the headline blames Agile, the article mostly critiques Scrum, the structured methodology, not the mindset Agile was built on.It caught my attention, not because I agreed entirely, but… Read More »Agile Isn’t Dead. But It’s Missing Something.
In the previous post, we talked about the “quiet contradiction” many of you are experiencing: that strong, internal optimism about your own business, even as the broader economic news feels a bit wobbly. It’s a powerful and valuable mindset, proof… Read More »You’re Confident in Your Business. Now Make It Run Without You.
If you’re like most mid-sized business owners I talk to, you’ve definitely noticed the hum of economic uncertainty lately. Headlines are loud—persistent inflation, rising costs, talks of new tariffs. It’s enough to make anyone pause and wonder what’s coming next… Read More »The Headlines Say Panic — But Your Business Feels Strong. What Gives?
And how to take back the levers—without carrying all the weightEarlier this week, I wrote about the myth of “HR will handle it.”And here’s the reality for most companies between 50 and 150 employees: • You might not have HR… Read More »No One Owns Execution? That’s Why You’re Stuck.
Why execution is stalling—and who’s really responsible A client recently described a situation that I’ve heard dozens of times before. A team that kept missing deadlines, bumping into each other, and generally feeling stuck.The owner leaned back and said: “We’ve… Read More »Stop Waiting on HR—Execution Is Your Job
We were two business-owners chatting over coffee. The conversation wasn’t planned. It just wandered, the way good ones do—through hiring headaches, a big win from last quarter, a client we’d both had trouble with at some point. Then, in a… Read More »“Do I Have a Good Company?” — A Conversation That Got Me Thinking