Fortnightly · Practitioner observations

Signal

Unfiltered observations from the field. Forensic-declarative. No frameworks named. No external citations. No calls to action. Every post stands alone. The series rewards sequential reading but does not require it.

Single argument across the series: Organisations are failing to connect reality to decision-making at every layer. The baseline is wrong. The map decays. The governance is negotiable. The disciplines are separated. The leadership layer cannot hold the decisions beneath it. The people who know stay quiet. And the discipline that was supposed to be the connective tissue built a caste system instead and called it maturity.

01

Executing a Guess

Published
02

Organisational Amnesia: The First Kind

Published
03

Organisational Amnesia: The Second Kind

Published
04

The Map and the Territory

Published
05

The Decaying Map

Published
06

The Gap Between the Map and the Ground

Published
07

The Exemption Door

Published
08

Who Called the EA?

Published
09

The Convenient Unknown

Written — held
10

The Person Who Knew

Written — held
11

The Navigator Who Never Left the Tent

In development
12

We Keep Breaking Teams at the Leadership Layer

In development
13

The Four Things That Aren't Enough

In development
14

The Club You Weren't Invited To

In development