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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
Field Note #050 | Silence In A Meeting Is Not Absence Of Opinion
Season 1 Episode 1
The Silence Tax
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Some meetings end with agreement.
Others end with something that looks like agreement.
The difference often becomes visible later,…
1 month, 1 week ago
FIELD NOTE #049 — The Workaround Became the Product
Season 1 Episode 1
Some of the most permanent things in an organisation begin as temporary decisions.
A deadline creates pressure, pressure creates a workaround, the wo…
1 month, 1 week ago
Field Note #048 | CONFIDENCE TRAVELS FURTHER THAN ACCURACY
Season 1 Episode 1
A confident answer can become accepted before anyone has properly verified it.
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This episode examines what happens when certainty travels faster …
1 month, 1 week ago
Field Note #047 | Consensus is often mistaken for agreement.
Season 1 Episode 1
Everyone agreed.At least, that is what the meeting appeared to say.
But there is a difference between people believing a decision is right and people …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Field Note #046 | Consensus Is Not Agreement
Season 1 Episode 1
Everyone agreed. At least, that is what the minutes said.Six weeks later the decision is being executed four different ways by people who were all in…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Field Note #045 | Urgency Is A Formatting Choice
Season 1 Episode 1
Most organisations have a process for managing urgent work.
Far fewer have a process for questioning urgency itself.
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In this episode, we exami…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Field Note #044 | The Expert In The Room Is Often The Room
Season 1 Episode 1
There is a type of expertise that nobody hired and nobody trained. It lives in the arrangement of the room.
Consider the agenda order and the distance…
1 month, 2 weeks ago