Most Tech Managers fight fires within systems, while the real bottleneck lies outside the codebase. If people can’t figure out how to use the company, how to request infra, ship a change, or get a decision, the flow dies. Thinking of the company as a product reframes the problem: every policy, handoff, and meeting is […]
If OKRs keep showing up as leadership’s latest management fetish, your teams will feel the pain first: date-driven thrash, handoffs that multiply, dashboards that look green while customers are still red. I’ve seen OKRs become performance theater, full of alignment rituals and little impact because they ignore system constraints. The result is burnout, brittle commitments, […]
Command-and-control creates local optimizations, slow handoffs, and teams that wait for permission instead of shipping value. The recurring root cause isn’t skill; it’s mission opacity. When people don’t understand why the work matters, they default to compliance rather than commitment. The result is churn: unclear trade-offs, approval queues, and context switching that crushes flow. If […]