Tag: executive leadership

• The Board Is Not Flat

  

  Photo by Elena Popova on Unsplash Yes, I know that’s Go. That’s partly the point. ~Dom I don’t particularly like chess. I am reasonably decent at it, although I have never played enough to earn a rating, and I recognize most of the reasons people admire the game. Chess teaches patience and sacrifice, and it…

  Dom

  September 27, 2026

  Leadership & Teamwork, organizational design

  abstraction, Accountability, architecture, cross-functional dependencies, decision authority, decision-making, epistemic humility, executive leadership, governance, information compression, Leadership, life, local optimization, operational reality, organizational complexity, organizational design, risk management, Security, strategic leadership, Strategy, systems thinking, tactical execution, writing

• 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

• The Way Becomes the Obstacle

  

  Photo by Matt Jones on Unsplash “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book Five You have seen this quote. It hangs framed in offices, opens keynotes, and anchors one of the best-selling leadership books of the past decade. Marcus Aurelius wrote it nearly…

  Dom

  July 5, 2026

  Governance & Systems Design, Management

  Accountability, Augustus, Commodus, corporate culture, employee engagement, executive leadership, governance, infrastructure, institutional resilience, Leadership, logistics, Management, Marcus Aurelius, operational excellence, organizational design, Roman history, stewardship, Stoicism, succession planning, systems thinking