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42 posts

Rotating Emergency Inventory: What Japan's Vending Machines Actually Do in an Earthquake

9 August 2026

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit Kumamoto Prefecture a couple weeks ago. Within a few hours came the usual flood: drone footage of a partially collapsed…

leadership

The Org Chart Lean Spent Decades Flattening, AI Just Skipped

22 June 2026

I came across the paper behind this post through Azeem Azhar's Exponential View newsletter, in a short item noting that AI-native startups start s…

AI

The Wrong Solution to an Unknown Problem

26 May 2026

Bill George is someone I usually agree with. He's been a consistent voice for principled leadership and organizational culture. So when he posted…

leadership

People Aren't on the Balance Sheet. That's the Problem.

25 May 2026

I've been ranting about this for nearly twenty years. The accounting treatment of people is broken, and almost nobody in a position to fix it is m…

leadership

Which Leaders Have the Guts to Actually Respect Human Nature?

19 May 2026

Jon Miller wrote something a few years ago at Gemba Academy that has stayed with me. The Toyota Way's second pillar is universally translated as &…

leadership

The Right Leadership Call, Built in Advance

13 May 2026

I was in college in the fall of 1982 when seven people in Chicago died from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules. I remember the news coverage, the sudden p…

leadership

The Framework Graveyard: What the Consulting Industry Did to Good Research

3 May 2026

A few days ago I came across a LinkedIn series by Corina Enache, an anthropologist who has spent the past several weeks doing something I hadn't s…

leadership

When Knowledge Loses Its Compass

18 March 2026

Isaac Asimov wrote his famous line about ignorance and democracy in a 1980 Newsweek column, and it's been bouncing around LinkedIn this week with…

leadership

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