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The Theory of Constraints Optimizes the System You Give It. Invariant Physics™ Asks Whether It’s the Real One.
July 21, 2026
The Theory of Constraints reasons brilliantly — once the system is characterized. The question that decides the outcome sits one step upstream: is the model the operating reality, or the process people are willing to describe?
Posted in: Commentary
Building AI for the Way the World Really Works — Taking Aaron Levie’s Observation One Step Further
July 21, 2026
Aaron Levie said Build for how the world should work. Almost three decades of implementations continue to point to the missing step — build for how it really works, before a court calls it a design output.
Posted in: Commentary
McKinsey Documents in Luxury What This Archive Has Recorded Since 2004: It’s Time to Meet AI at the Edge
July 20, 2026
McKinsey documents in luxury what this archive has recorded since 2004: where intent is first interpreted decides everything downstream. The physics never changed.
Posted in: Commentary
The Space Between the Lines
July 19, 2026
In 2011, every major forecaster drew the same cloud curve — and they were right. Almost none of them charted the line underneath: how much of it organizations actually absorbed. That gap is the whole story, and we're drawing the same picture now for AI.
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Not the Cure — the Response
July 18, 2026
"When a technology's promised value runs late, organizations reach for the tangible instead of the operating model. A pattern worth watching in AI."
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AI Sprawl Is the Fever, Not the Disease
July 18, 2026
"Gartner just named "AI sprawl" a top 2026 priority. We've seen this fever before — and the treatment on offer is the one that failed last time."
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You Only Pay Twice If You Never Kept the Receipts
July 17, 2026
Nadella, Rousseau and Cotelli all say your AI edge is your knowledge. True — but you only pay for intelligence twice if you never kept your own receipts.
Posted in: Commentary
The Enterprise AI Divide: Personal AI Is Becoming the New Shadow Spreadsheet
July 16, 2026
"Why Phase 0™ is integral to AI implementation and governance success"
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AI Made the Analysis Free. It Made the Judgment Scarce.
July 15, 2026
"If AI killed consulting, why did the AI companies just hire the consultants? Because adoption was never a software problem — and the receipts go back to 1998."
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Reasoning About the Real System, Extending TOC — A One-Day Executive MasterClass
July 22, 2026
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Every transformation method — TOC, Lean, Six Sigma, Agile — reasons brilliantly once the model is right. The one upstream step they all assume you already took is the step that decides the outcome. A new one-day Executive MasterClass, extending TOC, on the missing nail: validating the operating model before you reason. Available August 17.