Why Failure Always Looks Sudden Every organisational collapse is described the same way. “No one saw it coming.”“It happened so fast.”“Everything was fine until it wasn’t.” That story is comforting. It suggests bad luck.A freak event.An unforeseeable shock. It is almost always a lie. Collapse does not come from nowhere.It arrives when reality finally demands…
organisational decay
Bullshit Endurance
How Organisations Learn to Live With Dysfunction Organisations rarely fail when the first things go wrong. They fail much later, after they’ve learned how to live with things being wrong. That is the part most people misunderstand. Collapse doesn’t come from fragility alone. It comes from endurance. From the ability to tolerate dysfunction, absorb damage,…
The Bullshit Premium
Why Talking Well Now Pays Better Than Doing Well There was a time when competence was the currency. You learned how things worked.Understood failure modes.Earned trust because, when things went wrong, you were the person people turned to, not because you sounded confident, or could verbally spew the lastest corporate jargon but because you could…