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Performance Parity Isn’t About Technology — It’s About People
January 13, 2026
Why AI can't overcome the 'best-of-breed' illusion some are selling.
Three Thoughts About AI That Will Change Your Thinking for the Better
January 11, 2026
When it comes to AI, the industry is still playing chess when it should be building teams.
Nothing Changed — Except the Speed
January 11, 2026
Nothing Fundamental Has Changed in Transformation — Only the Speed at Which Failure Reveals Itself
Most People Missed the One Game-Changing Line from the Previous Post — So Did All Five of the RAM 2025 Models
January 10, 2026
Why The Black Box Isn't a Technology Problem — It's a Human-Agent Collaboration Choice.
The Executives Who Fail Aren’t the Ones Who Don’t Know — They’re the Ones Who Can’t Admit It
January 10, 2026
What are the two smartest things you have ever said? Mine are: "I don't understand" and "Am I missing something?"
Why I’m Done Tracking Gartner — and What I’m Focusing on Instead
January 10, 2026
"Gartner is not wrong. They are simply not designed to solve the problem of implementation success in the AI era."
Tech Stack vs. Layer Stack: Why One Fails and One Sustains
January 6, 2026
The tech stack asks: "What can we deploy?" The layer stack asks: "What can they absorb?" Only one survives Year 5.
The Obvious Thing: What 27 Years Taught Me About Success and Failure
January 4, 2026
Ninety percent of success can be boiled down to consistently doing the obvious thing for an uncommonly long period of time without convincing yourself that you're smarter than you are.
18 Years of New Year Insights: How One Thesis Predicted Every Transformation Failure
January 2, 2026
Technology waves change. The failure pattern doesn't. An 18-year retrospective of one thesis that was never disproved.
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Why You Should Avoid The Hackett Group’s January 28th Webinar
January 13, 2026
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When it comes to AI success, you have to stop chasing the best-of-breed illusion and realize your own unique outcomes.