Mental models and frameworks for clearer thinking and better decisions
Strategy
If your strategy document is a list of objectives with no diagnosis, you do not have a strategy. You have a wish list with a cover page. This is the most common failure mode in mid-market strategic planning: leadership teams spend weeks building a document that looks rigorous but contains
Operations
Your bottleneck is probably not where you think it is. Most operators pick the loudest problem, the station with the most complaints, or the process that feels the slowest. They invest there. And throughput does not move. Goldratt's Five Focusing Steps exist to prevent exactly this mistake. They
Thinking Models
The most expensive decisions in mid-market operations are not the ones that fail immediately. They are the ones that look like wins for 90 days and then compound into problems that cost three times the original savings. Second-order thinking, asking "and then what?" before committing resources, is the