Where Strategy Meets Structure
Practical thinking for leaders building companies that actually work from the inside out.
Organizational DesignLeadershipOperationsHiring & PeopleCompany Culture
Where to Start
Operations
Why Your Claude Costs Keep Climbing, and Three Questions to Start Fixing It
Using the most powerful model for every task is like hiring a management consultant to answer your phones. Here's how I route real client work across the Claude lineup.
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Organizational Design
Why More Organizations Are Investing in the Chief of Staff Role
The Chief of Staff is increasingly seen not as a senior assistant, but as a high-impact strategic operator connecting executive intent with execution.
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Leadership
Behavior Is Infrastructure: What Radical Candor Reveals About Systems
Reviewed from the perspective of organizational structure and execution. Culture is not adjacent to systems – it is a system.
Read →The Reading List
The books behind the thinking, with a note on why each one stuck.
Good to Great
Jim Collins
The flywheel chapter is worth the whole book. Most companies want the leap and skip the turns that earn it.
Rocket Fuel
Gino Wickman & Mark C. Winters
Names the visionary-integrator split better than anything else. I've watched whole companies stall for lack of the integrator.
Read my notes →Foolproof Hiring
Brad Smart & Kate Smart
Topgrading made approachable. The scorecard discipline alone will save you one expensive mishire.
Atomic Habits
James Clear
I read it for myself and use it on systems. Companies have habits too, and most of them are accidental.
Who: The A Method for Hiring
Geoff Smart & Randy Street
The book that fixed my interviews. Define the outcomes before you ever look at a résumé.
Read my notes →Radical Candor
Kim Scott
Care personally, challenge directly. The manager who can't do the second half is the subject of one of my posts.
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