June 2026

The Thinking That Got You Here Is Now The Problem

by admin|23 June 202623 June 2026|From The Playbook, Perspective

There is a concept in complexity science called entrainment of thinking. It describes what happens when ideas and practices that have proven effective in the past become accepted norms — acquiring inertia, becoming invisible, becoming impossible to question not because...

Your Restaurant Operates At The Edge Of Chaos — That Is Not A Problem, It Is The Point

by admin|22 June 202622 June 2026|From The Playbook, People, Performance

In 1996, a biologist named Stuart Kauffman published a theory about how complex systems — cells, ecosystems, economies — organize themselves. His central finding: the most adaptive, highest-performing systems do not operate in perfect order. They do not operate in...

Ram Charan Said Fieldwork Is A Lost Art — He Was Right

by admin|22 June 202622 June 2026|From The Playbook, People, Performance, Perspective

Ram Charan has advised GE, DuPont, Novartis, Home Depot, and Verizon. He spent 35 years as one of the world's foremost leadership consultants, on the road 365 days a year, inside the organizations that define how business gets done at...

Larry Bossidy Said It In 2002. Most Operators Still Haven’t Heard It

by admin|22 June 202622 June 2026|From The Playbook, People, Performance, Perspective

In 2002, Larry Bossidy — the man who turned AlliedSignal into a reliable earnings machine and then came back to rescue Honeywell — published a book called Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done. He spent the better part of his...

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