Ideas
Ideas I'm working through about leadership, organizations, judgment, and the places where the apparent problem isn't always the actual one.
The Near Enemies of Organizational Life
Organizations have Near Enemies too. A strength, story, norm, or reputation can acquire authority over questions it was never meant to answer, creating a collective blind spot that is remarkably hard to see from inside the system.
Expertise as a Blind Spot
Expertise gives us speed, pattern recognition, shorthand, and judgment. It can also make us so fluent in a frame that we stop noticing it is a frame.
Why High-Performing Leaders Get Stuck When Everything Looks Fine
Some of the most dangerous problems in high-performing organizations do not look like problems. They look like progress, especially when the assumptions underneath them have stopped being questioned.