IDEAS
A different way to look at the work.
Insights on leadership, decision making, and the near enemies that keep capable people and organizations stuck.
START HERE
Three ideas to get you started
New to Residy or the Near Enemies framework? Start here. These pieces introduce the core ideas and show how they apply in leadership, organizations, and real estate.
LEADERSHIP
Why the Apparent Problem Is Rarely the Actual Problem
Capable people often work hard on the wrong problem. Here's how to get beneath the surface.
FRAMEWORK
What Is the Near Enemies Framework?
The near enemies framework explains how strengths can become liabilities — and what to do about it.
ORGANIZATIONS
The Near Enemies of Organizational Life
Common Near Enemy pairs that show up in teams, institutions, and complex systems.
EXPLORE IDEAS
Latest Ideas
Who Else Needs to Be in This Conversation?
Some expensive mistakes are not caused by a lack of expertise. They happen because the expertise is fragmented, and the person holding the missing piece was never brought into the conversation.
When More Supply Doesn’t Mean Lower Rents
More supply does not automatically mean lower rents. The useful question is what the supply number is actually telling you about competition, product, demand, and where the market is adjusting.
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.
Reflection vs. Rumination: Why Thinking Harder Is Not the Same as Thinking Better
Reflection and rumination can look almost identical from the inside. The difference is direction: reflection extracts something useful and carries it forward. Rumination keeps asking thought to produce an answer it may not be able to produce.
How to Find the Hidden Obstacle That Is Actually Preventing Progress
A project that looked like a construction-cost problem turned out to be a parking assumption nobody had thought to revisit. Sometimes the fastest way forward is to treat the given as a variable.