The Spike Strategy: Why Well-Rounded People Fail.

The modern education system is designed to produce spheres. A sphere is “Well-Rounded.” It has no sharp edges. It rolls easily into any slot. Corporate HR loves spheres. “He is good at coding, okay at speaking, and decent at teamwork.” But in the high-performance world, spheres are useless. You do not win by being “above […]

The Methodology Fallacy: Why Systems Can’t Save Poor Talent

When a project fails, the first instinct of a bureaucracy is to blame the “Methodology.” “Agile isn’t working for us.” “We need to switch from Waterfall to Scrum.” “The PMI principles are too rigid for our culture.” This is almost always a lie. It is an attempt to solve a People Problem with a Process […]