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In the boardroom it sounds crisp. “We are pivoting to enterprise to improve unit economics and strategic positioning.” Slides nod along. Heads nod along. You move to the next agenda item. In that moment the decision feels clean and binary. From now on, we are an enterprise-first company. Walk a
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The moment usually looks impressive. A competitor ships a new feature. Within thirty minutes your Slack sounds like a fire alarm. Product managers paste screenshots into five different channels. Engineers pull apart the changelog. Sales shares nervous messages from customers. Someone tags the leadership team with a polite version of
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The average CEO joke about middle management lands with a nervous laugh. Someone says, “Our strategies die in the frozen middle,” and the room nods. Then everyone turns back to the deck, adds a few more initiatives, and quietly piles more weight on the same layer they just blamed. Behind
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$532 billion. That is the estimated annual cost of unproductive meetings in the US economy. It is the kind of number people quote with a nervous laugh in offsites. Everyone nods. Then they open their laptops and book 3 more recurring check-ins. If you look closer, something odd appears. The
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In most companies, almost nobody knows the strategy. The number that gets quoted in leadership circles is roughly five percent. Only about one in twenty employees can accurately describe what their company is trying to do, how it plans to win, and what that means in practical terms. It is
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On the investor call, the CEO talks about transformation. Cloud migration, agile at scale, new digital channels, AI pilots. There are numbers to prove it worked. Technology spend brought unit costs down in one division. Customer satisfaction ticked up in another. A slide shows a neat bar chart with “Digital
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How long does it take your company to execute a strategic decision? It's a question every CEO thinks about. Few know the answer. Not because they lack insight, but because modern organizations weren't built to measure it. We were promised that digital tools would accelerate coordination.
Increasing Organizational Velocity, one insight at a time
