Tag: complexity

• Letters to Versailles

  

  Photo by Jessica Kantak Bailey on Unsplash There is something almost unfair about seeing Versailles for the first time. We arrive knowing how the story ends. We know about bread and debt, revolution and executions. We know the monarchy will fall, just as we know the palace will eventually become something closer to a monument…

  Dom

  August 30, 2026

  Leadership & Teamwork, organizational design

  bureaucracy, communication strategy, complexity, corporate culture, decision making, executive leadership, feedback loops, governance, History, information flow, institutional design, Leadership, Management, organizational behavior, organizational change, organizational communication, organizational design, organizational silos, Philosophy, strategic alignment, systems architecture, systems thinking

• Illumination

  

  Photo by Roma Kaiuk🇺🇦 on Unsplash The joke is old because it keeps working. One person’s résumé says:Single-handedly managed the successful upgrade and deployment of a new environmental illumination system with zero cost overruns and zero safety incidents. Someone watching the work says:He changed a light bulb. We laugh because we recognize the move. A…

  Dom

  February 8, 2026

  Business Communication, Leadership & Teamwork, Work Trends

  abstraction, Accountability, Business, complexity, data governance, decision making, execution, incentives, Knowledge management, Leadership, metrics, operational risk, organizational design, organizational failure, scale, Strategy, systems thinking