Finding Your True North
Navigate beyond "best practice" toward the right way.
Like the meridian line that defines true north, we challenge leaders to move past "how everyone else does it" and find their authentic path to meaningful impact.
Fresh Off the Press
Where conventional wisdom meets its match. We question the status quo, challenge "industry standards," and explore what's possible when you dare to lead differently.
Max Weber's iron cage isn't just metaphor—it's daily organizational reality. Learn how systems thinking, cybernetics, and institutional entrepreneurship help new CEOs reshape constraints rather than just fighting them.
The most cooperative CEOs build the strongest defenses. Why do even well-intentioned leaders become power maximizers? Mearsheimer's offensive realism reveals how structural conditions transform cautious actors into aggressive competitors.
What if the data that bankrupts strategy is the data you literally can't keep in mind? A deep dive into organizational forgetting, antimemetic knowledge, and the spaces where institutional memory fails to form.
Why boards praise bold vision but fund incremental change, and how to bridge the risk gap that keeps organizations stuck
From algorithmic management dashboards to identical office murals, modern firms are collapsing into one gray template. A new 'control society' — part Weberian iron cage, part cloud-software panopticon — is quietly shaping capitalism's next act, and it's flattening innovation.
Beyond best practice, toward the right way. Exploring leadership, strategy, and organizational dynamics through systems thinking and structural analysis.