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Most organizations are flying blind when it comes to capacity planning. They've got detailed roadmaps, sophisticated project management tools, and elaborate approval processes. But ask them how much actual delivery capacity their teams have next quarter, and you'll get blank star...

 Here's a truth that'll make project managers everywhere cringe: most teams are set up to fail before they even start. Not because they lack talent or motivation, but because nobody bothered to properly scope what success actually requires.

I see this constantly. Leaders get exc...

Here's something nobody wants to admit: most organizations are terrible at saying no. They greenlight initiatives like they're playing poker with house money, only to discover they've bet more than they can afford to lose.

I used to think this was just poor discipline. Teams get...

Here's the uncomfortable truth about roadmaps: if you're presenting everything as locked-in and guaranteed, you're lying. And everyone knows it.

I see this everywhere – leadership teams who present roadmaps like they're carved tablets, with every initiative, every timeline, and ...

Right, let's talk about the elephant in the boardroom. You've spent weeks crafting the perfect strategic roadmap. Every initiative is aligned to priorities. The sequencing looks logical. The timeline hits all the market windows. It's a thing of beauty.

Then you share it with you...

Let me guess: your "strategic roadmap" is actually a Jira board with better fonts, or a spreadsheet with some timeline bars slapped on top. You call it a roadmap, but what you've really built is an expensive task list that nobody understands or trusts.

I see this everywhere. Org...

Here's an uncomfortable truth: if everything on your roadmap feels like it needs to happen "now," you've already lost.

I see this everywhere – leadership teams that have worked hard to identify their strategic priorities, only to watch execution crumble because every single init...

Right, this one needs to be said. I see it everywhere – organizations that have finally cracked the code on setting clear priorities, only to watch their execution fall apart because nobody thought about sequence.

It's like having a perfectly organized closet where every item of...

I need to tell you about the most insidious killer of strategic execution.

It's not bad ideas getting approved. It's not incompetent teams or unrealistic timelines. It's something far more subtle and far more dangerous: scope drift.

Here's how it works. You approve a well-vette...

Here's a scenario that's likely playing out in your organization right now.

Three months ago, leadership approved a customer portal redesign. Everyone nodded enthusiastically in the meeting. Work began. But now the project is behind schedule, over budget, and somehow includes fe...

Right, let's talk about something that's happening in your organization right now.

Someone just walked into a leadership meeting with a "brilliant" idea. It sounds good. It feels urgent. The person presenting it is charismatic and well-connected.

And you're about to say yes.

N...

Look, I need to tell you something uncomfortable.

Most of the initiatives your organization approves are doomed before they start. Not because the ideas are bad, or the teams are incompetent, or the strategy is wrong.

They're doomed because nobody actually knows what they've co...