August 26, 2025 When Speed Masquerades as Intelligence: Protecting Margin with Agents Tools accelerate old assumptions and make companies faster at being wrong. Agents adapt with context and decide in ways that defend the margin.
August 19, 2025 The Intelligence That Doesn't Trust Its First Answer What if your AI questioned itself like your best analyst? Self-Reflection Agents examine, validate, and refine until the answer holds.
August 13, 2025 The Real AI Opportunity in Distribution: Killing Decision Debt Most AI in distribution targets fast decisions. The real win is clearing the ones your team keeps deferring until the value is gone.
August 6, 2025 Kitchen Knife vs. Butter Spreader: How High-Trust Teams Fight Conflict isn’t a risk. It’s a system. Design it right, and trust becomes the byproduct, not the prerequisite.
July 29, 2025 Pricing Precision. Strategic Confusion. Margin Erosion. Tactical excellence can't fix strategic gaps. Your pricing reveals who you are. Make sure it's not sending the wrong message.
July 16, 2025 Strategy Seen with Quieter Eyes Not all insight comes from more data. Sometimes, the pulse of great strategy begins with quiet restraint.
July 9, 2025 Florence Nightingale and the Power of Evidence to Change the System She turned data into action. You can too. Align your teams around shared truth before performance masks the cracks.
July 8, 2025 My Grainger Pricing Strategy Confession: When Being Right Killed Our Momentum Precision looked smart. But it stalled sales. Clarity turned the tide. The best strategy is the one your team can use.
July 3, 2025 Your Role Says Leader. But Do You Actually Influence Anything That Matters? Influence is not visibility. It is what shapes decisions when you are not in the room. This diagnostic shows where your impact holds and where it fades.
June 26, 2025 Alignment Meetings Are a Lie. Build Decision Systems Instead. Coordination theater drains momentum. Real alignment comes from decision clarity, not endless meetings.
June 19, 2025 Why Your AI Works in Demos but Fails in the Field B2B AI fails when it guesses behavior without context. Real intelligence adapts to urgency, role, and constraints in every decision.
June 4, 2025 Why Top Pricing Teams Learn from Overrides Not Fight Them (Part 1) Overrides are not discipline failures. They’re frontline signals your pricing model missed. Control slows decisions. Intelligence improves them.