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FIELD NOTE #060 | The Paradox Required Navigation
Season 1 Episode 1
The Paradox Required Navigation | Why Management Keeps Demanding a Solution
Why do familiar organisational tensions return, even after a decision has …
3 weeks, 4 days ago
FIELD NOTE #059 | The Architecture of Epistemic Collapse
Season 1 Episode 1
FIELD NOTE #059 | The Architecture of Epistemic Collapse
The Certainty Was Borrowed. The Risk Was Kept.
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The Certainty Was Borrowed. The Risk Was Kept.…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Field Note #058 | The Handover Is Where The Story Changes
Season 1 Episode 1
Some information arrives at a decision already carrying several invisible edits. Not because someone falsified it. Because someone handed it over.
Thi…
4 weeks ago
FIELD NOTE #057 | Loyalty To The Plan Is Not The Same As Loyalty To The Goal
Season 1 Episode 1
Loyalty To The Plan Is Not The Same As Loyalty To The Goal
Plans are written to achieve goals. The plan and the goal occasionally diverge. Circumstanc…
4 weeks, 2 days ago
FIELD NOTE #056 | The Presentation Is Not The Thinking
Season 1 Episode 1
The Presentation Is Not The Thinking
A well-constructed presentation suggests well-constructed thinking. The two are related. They are not the same. F…
4 weeks, 2 days ago
The Policy Survived. The Story Didn't.
Season 1 Episode 1
The Policy Survived. The Story Didn't.
Most organisations believe policies exist because people like rules. The truth is usually more interesting. Mos…
1 month ago
FIELD NOTE #054 | The Strategy Arrived After The Decision
Season 1 Episode 1
The Strategy Arrived After The Decision
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Some strategies are instruments for deciding.
Others are instruments for explaining.
The difficulty is that …
1 month ago
FIELD NOTE #053 Familiarity Is A Form Of Blindness
Season 1 Episode 1
Familiarity Is A Form Of Blindness
The most experienced person in the room sees the most.
They also see the least.
Expertise is a filter.
It makes comple…
1 month ago
FIELD NOTE #052 | The Escalation Was a Request for Permission
Season 1 Episode 1
An escalation is a question with a destination.
Sometimes the destination is expertise.
Sometimes it is ownership.
1 month, 1 week ago
FIELD NOTE #051 Every Deadline Is A Theory
Season 1 Episode 1
The Business Behind the Deadline
A deadline is a prediction.
It is made before the work is fully understood.
1 month, 1 week ago