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THINKING AS I WRITE

Why do only a few rare leaders extract extraordinary performance from their companies, when so many good ones with the same tools, the same balance sheets, the same caliber of talent cannot? 

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Most leaders just add. Few truly multiply. 


Something else has to explain it.

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I call it The Propeller Effect. That moment when the extraordinary becomes routinely ordinary. Every day, all the time. When the invisible architecture unlocks the full power of the visible. 


The articles I publish here aren’t extracts from the book. It’s me thinking around core topics the questions, the cases, the science, the arguments I’m wrestling with as the book takes shape.

 

Read them. Push back. Tell me where they don’t hold and help shape my thinking.

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ARTICLE 01

Something Else Is Going On

A CEO stands up in a quarterly earnings call — the kind of setting where the vocabulary is about market share, margin, competitive positioning...

ARTICLE 03

Decoding the Pattern

A CEO wipes out 75% of his company's market value and keeps doubling down. Another admits their product is terrible...

ARTICLE 05

More than Logic

Steve Jobs demanded his engineering team build a phone with no visible screws, no seams, and glass that didn’t exist yet...

ARTICLE 02

Ordinary Doesn’t Achieve Extraordinary

Eight strangers in a windowless room. Fluorescent lighting. Pizza boxes at one end. A camera behind the two-way mirror...

ARTICLE 04

Well-Trodden Ground

Every serious leader has a shelf. Collins. Kahneman. Christensen. Sinek. Probably Duckworth and Brown. Maybe Gladwell and Grant...

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