The Taxonomy Nobody Draws: Four Things Hiding Under Simple and Complex
Simple and complex are two words carrying four separate operations. Organisations that cannot name the four end up buying the two counterfeits and refusing t...
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The Chain Nobody Cut
Blame is not a moral failing. It is an information-destroying mechanism, and it is the reason the same failure keeps coming back under a different name.
You Cannot Verify Your Own Interpreter
A chief executive never receives information about his own technology. He receives a translation of it, produced by the people that same information evaluates.
Your Hiring Process Is a Filter Against Your Own Blind Spot
Companies do not accidentally lose the people who would have seen the failure coming. They select against them, on purpose, using processes they are proud of.
Permission Not to Decide: The Quiet Technology of Diluted Responsibility
A process is not only a way to get things done. It is also a way for no one to have to decide, and for no one to answer when nothing does.
Sovereignty Is Not a Slogan, It's a Four-Question Test
The word sovereignty means nothing until four answers about your critical suppliers are written down.
The Paradox of Always-On Business
Everything in the company runs through the line, and no one owns what happens the day it cuts.
The Right to Cut: What Gabon Taught Me About Sovereignty
Real sovereignty is not the capacity you are granted. It is the capacity you are willing to use, and its sharpest test is the right to cut.
Off the Books: The Technical Debt No Monitor Will Ever Show You
Every company counts the technical debt it can see. The debt that matters most is the one people absorb for free, and it never shows up on a dashboard.
The Decision Nobody Reopens
A technical decision is a dated act. It survives on paper long after the ground it stood on has shifted, because nobody was ever given the mandate to reopen ...
Conducting Without an Instrument
The conductor doesn’t play any instrument. Not the cello, not the bassoon, not the oboe. That absence is precisely the condition that allows the function to ...
The Story You Were Sold About Your System
An information system never lies to its CEO. It is narrated to its CEO. Every audit, every dashboard, every internal report is a deposition, not a statement ...
The Accusation Already Written
In a real trial, both parties are heard before the verdict. In most organizations, the trial of a technical decision happens with only one version of events ...