Tag: execution

• The Second Ledger

  

  Photo by Mason on Unsplash One of the best programs I ever built had no defensible methodology. It was a recognition application developed for a sales and customer service team in a former role. Every manager received a monthly budget of points and the discretion to award them: for staying late, for covering someone else’s…

  Dom

  August 2, 2026

  Governance & Systems Design, Process Improvement, Uncategorized

  applicability, Business Strategy, compounding progress, continuous improvement, coordination cost, cumulative motion, decision models, delivery versus strategy, execution, long-term thinking, Management, operational efficiency, organizational alignment, organizational design, organizational drag, organizational learning, performance measurement, portfolio management, Process Improvement, Project Management, resource allocation, second ledger, strategic planning, systems thinking, technical debt

• Incentives Don’t Translate

  

  Photo by Rowan Freeman on Unsplash The meeting runs forty-five minutes. A decision gets made. Five people walk out. The shareholder representative leaves satisfied; the numbers presented justified the capital committed, and the projected return sits within acceptable variance for the horizon they care about. The executive leaves focused; the decision clarifies what will be…

  Dom

  April 19, 2026

  Leadership & Teamwork, organizational design

  alignment, business operations, company culture, corporate strategy, decision-making, execution, incentive structures, incentives, Leadership, Management, organizational behavior, organizational design, Strategy, systems thinking, workplace dynamics

• 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