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THINKING AS I WRITE

I've been fascinated by the same question for thirty years.


Why do 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? 


Few truly multiply. Most just add.


Something else has to explain it. It's mostly unseen beneath the visible work every leader does, beyond the same strategies and toolkits they have in common. I call it The Propeller Effect, and that's what I am working to decode in this book.
Journey with me. 


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 if the question matters to you, register below. You’ll get the work as it builds and you’ll help shape the book before it goes to print.

ARTICLE 01

Something Else Is Going On

A CEO stands up in a quarterly earnings call — the kind of setting where the vocabulary is 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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