The engine/steering frame is the right one, and "production speed is not decision speed" is the line most of the adopt-or-die crowd is missing.
Worth pushing one step further. The five investments you close on do not just sit next to each other. They rhyme. Evaluation, coordination, oversight, strategic clarity, reversibility. Those might be one thing showing up in five places.
The refund agent shows the shape of it. Nothing broke. The agent did exactly its job. The damage was that a local win stopped paying off globally, and nobody could see it until the bill arrived. That is not a tooling gap. That is the absence of a layer that was supposed to be carrying intent the whole time.
The market-forgiveness section is the part I have not seen anyone else name, and the one I will be sitting with. How wrong your market lets you be is a real variable. Most "move fast" advice is just a forgiving market's permission, quoted without saying so.
I work one floor up from infrastructure. But the floors are connected. Looking forward to "The Shape of Your Organization."
The engine/steering frame is the right one, and "production speed is not decision speed" is the line most of the adopt-or-die crowd is missing.
Worth pushing one step further. The five investments you close on do not just sit next to each other. They rhyme. Evaluation, coordination, oversight, strategic clarity, reversibility. Those might be one thing showing up in five places.
The refund agent shows the shape of it. Nothing broke. The agent did exactly its job. The damage was that a local win stopped paying off globally, and nobody could see it until the bill arrived. That is not a tooling gap. That is the absence of a layer that was supposed to be carrying intent the whole time.
The market-forgiveness section is the part I have not seen anyone else name, and the one I will be sitting with. How wrong your market lets you be is a real variable. Most "move fast" advice is just a forgiving market's permission, quoted without saying so.
I work one floor up from infrastructure. But the floors are connected. Looking forward to "The Shape of Your Organization."
Thanks Al. I have written about this earlier here - https://tightmargins.substack.com/p/management-migrates-it-doesnt-die
The next one is coming in on Tuesday.