Growth Strategy

When everything feels rushed, our thinking gets tight.
Much like in tennis, this post explores why leaders get “jammed” by constant motion — and how creating space unlocks clarity, flow, and better decisions. Because our best work doesn’t happen crammed up against the ball.

Teams often launch with optimism and vague goals — then wonder why results don’t follow.

This post introduces a simple but powerful planning question: What needs to be true? When success is defined clearly in advance, alignment improves, effort sharpens, and outcomes stop being accidental.

Most plans assume success and hope grit will handle the rest. This post introduces a better approach: imagining failure before it happens.

By using pre-mortems instead of post-mortems, leaders uncover weak assumptions early, and dramatically improve the odds of real success.

Quarter-end scrambles feel normal, but they’re quietly expensive.

This post breaks down why quarterly reporting rhythms create chaos, burnout, and bad behavior, and how a smarter operating structure creates urgency, progress, and momentum without panic.

We love to judge decisions by how they turn out, but that habit quietly undermines real growth.

This post explores why good decisions can fail, bad ones can succeed, and how leaders can escape the trap of “resulting” by focusing on repeatable decision-making instead of luck.

We’re taught that certainty equals competence, but that belief quietly kills curiosity.

This post explores why admitting “I don’t know” isn’t weakness, but a turning point for learning, trust, and growth, especially for leaders under pressure to always have the answer.