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The Manager Burnout Crisis Quietly Breaking Your Strategy

Most companies treat manager burnout as an HR problem. It’s a strategy problem. When the people translating priorities, making tradeoffs, and holding teams together are exhausted, execution breaks. This issue explores three structural fixes: clarify, decide, develop.

Your AI Investment Is Making Everyone Busier and Nothing Faster

There's a quiet assumption running through boardrooms right now: if we just push harder on AI, the productivity will show up eventually. More pilots, more vendors, more "AI-enabled" in the deck. The working belief is that the technology curve will outrun the organizational mess. The data

The Innovation Debt Remote Work Is Hiding

Remote work kept output high but quietly eroded innovation. This piece unpacks the data behind weak ties, tacit knowledge, and hybrid design.

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When Everyone’s Aligned But Nothing Executes

Most organizations don’t have a strategy problem; they have a clarity problem. As AI accelerates work and hybrid models fragment coordination, the real constraint is whether people actually understand what matters and who decides what.