Month: October 2025
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The Four Levels of Decision Loops
How Companies Break When Decision Levels Misalign GPT estimates that ~90% of corporate failures come from misaligned decisions across levels […]
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Why Leaders Need Structured Dialectics
“The over-weening conceit which the greater part of men have of their own abilities is an ancient evil.” — Adam […]
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Two Paths of Compromise
From quasi-stability to synthesis—or imitation Compromise is a pause, not a destination. Given enough time, it turns into either a […]
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When Right is Bad and Wrong is Good
Right–Wrong vs. Good–Bad We often assume that what is Right is also Good, and what is Wrong is also Bad. […]
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Matching Ambitions with Reality
Since everything moves in cycles, can we forecast the future from those cycles’ definitions? In this experiment we used two […]
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Eye Opener for Educators
A simple way to teach systems thinking—by showing it If you teach strategy, policy, ethics, sustainability, leadership, or social science, […]
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From Hydra to Unicorn
Turning Bureaucracy into Common Sense I admire Prof. Jiang Xueqin’s predictive history channel. This is my take on his Death […]
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Eye-Opener for Marketers, Influencers, PR & Brand-Makers
Also for journalists and editors who want balanced, backlash-proof narratives. Your wizard’s safety blanket against over-spelling: Big claims cast big […]
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Company Performance From Its Mission’s Wheel
This is a short follow-on to our earlier note, “The Shadow Side of Shiny Missions.” We translated GM’s mission (“Zero […]
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The Shadow Side of Shiny Missions
“Most corporate mission statements are worthless. They consist largely of pious platitudes such as: ‘We will hold ourselves to the […]