My Focus
LOST VALUE
Organizations rarely fail from lack of human effort or new ideas. They fail because fractures in leadership, design, and incentives remain unseen until value is quietly lost.
I focus on five recurring domains where organizations stumble.
Organizations Stumble
FIVE DOMAINS
1. Personal Leadership
Leaders carry the greatest gravitational force in any formulating vision and implementing future. Outdated mindsets, immaturity, or even narcissism at the top distort priorities and weaken execution. No strategy survives a self-centered leader; people and teams mirror the leader’s blind spots.
2. People Leadership
Teams fail not from unwillingness but from misalignment. Training programs are launched and paid for, yet skills never stick. Principal–agent problems emerge: managers act in self-interest rather than in the company’s. This invisible disorder destroys value long before it appears in financial results.
3. Organizational Leadership
Most executives mistake organizational design for an organogram exercise. They move boxes on paper but ignore the systemic forces: culture, control, and knowledge. Fragmented expertise creates silos, hidden costs, and missed opportunities. Integration is essential; otherwise, every strategy falters.
4. Systems
Thinking
Organizations are living systems, yet many are operated half-blind. Control mechanisms fail to sense what is happening inside or outside. Knowledge is scattered; tacit skills remain unshared. Without systemic awareness, organizations respond too slowly and remain fragile in a dynamic environment.
5. Maturity
Gaps
The most dangerous weakness is lack of maturity. Immature organizations confuse activity with impact. They track only financial outcomes, ignoring unseen value creation and unseen value destruction. Culture is often treated separately, but it is a reflection of leadership, control, and stewardship.