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
The Near Enemies of Organizational Life
Organizations have Near Enemies too. Real collective strengths can become blind spots when they start answering questions they were never meant to answer.
Grace Is Not Access
Understanding why someone behaves the way they do does not obligate you to keep structuring your life around it. Grace can shape how generously you understand someone without deciding how much access they should have to you.
Why the Apparent Problem is Rarely the Actual Problem
The problem we can name is often real, but incomplete. The real work is figuring out what sits underneath it and what the apparent problem is obscuring.
Everything I Do Is the Same Move
Teaching, advisory work, Near Enemies, and even real estate finance looked like separate workstreams for a long time. They weren’t. They were the same diagnostic move in different rooms.
Accountability vs. Self-Blame
Accountability asks what was yours and what you will do differently. Self-blame keeps expanding the assignment until the whole outcome becomes evidence against you.
What Is the Near Enemies Framework?
Near Enemies is a framework for understanding how real strengths can distort, overreach, or take on jobs they were never meant to do, and why those patterns are so hard to see from the inside.