Signal & Strategy · Every Wednesday

Writing

One idea you can use before Friday. A story, the research that backs it up or argues with it, and one thing to try this week. The current series is In That Order.

• Sep 9, 2026The Five QuestionsThe conversation before the conversation.
• Aug 2, 2026The Chopping BlockStarting tells you what an organization hopes. Stopping tells you what it believes.
• Jul 26, 2026The FormWe did not withhold the tool. We withheld the decision.
• Jul 24, 2026What is GovernanceDo you know who does what when?
• Jul 11, 2026The RoomWillingness is a feeling. Readiness is an inventory.
• Jun 28, 2026The BuildFast is not the same as aimed.
• Jun 13, 2026The TableEverything they needed was already in the room.
• May 31, 2026The CordOn the night shift, anyone could stop the line.
• May 16, 2026The Leadership LayerWhat has to be true before any of this works.
• May 2, 2026The First ConversationRight idea. Wrong time. And why I didn’t believe it.
• Apr 18, 2026The Danger of Letting Every Department Find Its Own AI SolutionTwo teams solving the same problem, neither knowing about the other.
• Apr 4, 2026Why Change Fails Before It StartsHotdogs for three hundred. One hundred came.
• Mar 23, 2026Data entry is not your job. Data validation is.A new hire’s first week, spent typing usernames.
• Mar 14, 2026AI Will Not Replace Leadership. It Will Reveal Structural Coherence.AI shows whether an organization’s structure can hold it.
• Mar 14, 2026We're Not in a Technology Problem. We're in a Leadership Problem.A post-mortem in my first week, and the people nobody talked about.