From the Field
How perfectly sensible decisions accumulate into overwhelm, and why the instinct to add more is making it worse
Your organisation is not underperforming because something is missing. It is underperforming because of what it has accumulated. Every addition made sense on its own. Together they have become weight the system is now spending its energy carrying. The force has a name, it behaves predictably, and it can be removed.
Nothing Has to Be Wrong for Everything to Become Too Much
How perfectly sensible decisions accumulate into overwhelm, and why the instinct to add more is making it worse
Your organisation is not underperforming because something is missing. It is underperforming because of what it has accumulated. Every addition made sense on its own. Together they have become weight the system is now spending its energy carrying. The force has a name, it behaves predictably, and it can be removed.
Nothing Starts Until Something Stops
Every organisation asks whether a new thing is worth doing. Almost none asks what will stop to make room for it. One question, usable in meetings you already attend, without anyone's permission.