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Fill In The Blanks: A Change Practitioner's Story
Every project has the same story. Different names, different numbers, same sponsor who never shows up. Fill in the blanks. Read it back. Feel seen.
The USPS Changed a Small Rule. It Just Made Tax Filing Riskier.
A small USPS rule change quietly made mailing tax returns riskier. Postmarks may no longer reflect when you mailed your return, shifting the burden of proof to you. Here’s what independent practitioners need to know before deadlines hit.
Cash Flow Beats Revenue: What the Last 12 Months Actually Tell You
Revenue can look healthy while your business quietly drains your energy. Cash flow tells a more honest story: when money actually arrives, how long you float the work, and where stress becomes structural. Before you plan the year ahead, look at the patterns hiding behind your numbers.
Cleaning Up Your Business Ops So Next Year Hurts Less
If your business feels heavier than the work you do, operations are likely the problem. This article walks through simple, end-of-year fixes that reduce stress and make next year easier to live in.
Finding Work In A Brutal CM Market: A Numbers-First Playbook
Roles are harder to find and rates have dropped. Hope will not move your search forward. A reliable system will. This is a practical, numbers-driven approach to staying in motion, building pipeline, and creating opportunity in a tough market.
The Organizational Debt Collector
AI didn't create your organization's knowledge problem. It just sent the bill. The practitioners best equipped to fix it have been doing this work for years — without naming it, and without charging for it at the level it deserves.
Friction Was the Business Model
When intelligence can be applied continuously and at scale, complexity stops functioning as a barrier. Organizations built to absorb that barrier may discover their role was more temporary than it appeared.
The Coming Intelligence Oligopoly
Most leaders still think of AI as a tool. In reality, it is becoming a form of scalable cognition embedded directly into the enterprise. The firms that reorganize around this shift will not just operate more efficiently. They will operate under fundamentally different competitive conditions.
The Myth of AI-Driven Job Loss
AI is not removing the work. It is removing the roles and offering a story that makes those decisions easier to explain. When the work remains but no one can name who now carries it, organizations do not transform. They shift the weight, quietly, and call it progress.
The End of Best Practices and the Rise of Situational Judgment
Best practices are breaking down. Not because they failed, but because the conditions they were built for no longer exist. What’s replacing them is situational judgment—the ability to decide, adapt, and act without a playbook.
Year-End Metrics Lie (and What to Measure Instead)
Year-end metrics are designed to show completion, not readiness. The problem is that change does not resolve on a fiscal calendar. What matters most often shows up after the dashboards turn green, in confidence gaps, workarounds, and quiet strain. This piece explores what to measure instead.
How Much Shareholder Value Is Enough?
The drive to “return value” every quarter rarely benefits the people who created it. As practitioners, we must ask: when does returning value cross the line into extracting it—and what role do we play in enabling that cycle?
Edge + Fog AI: The Next Frontier in Real-Time Decision-Making and Organizational Agility
Edge AI is shifting decision-making from the cloud to the frontline. This first Future Friday article explores how edge, fog, and AI are converging—and what change practitioners need to know to lead through this next wave of transformation.
Fill In The Blanks: A Change Practitioner's Story
Every project has the same story. Different names, different numbers, same sponsor who never shows up. Fill in the blanks. Read it back. Feel seen.
Enterprise Rolls Out Sixth Collaboration Tool To Replace Five Still In Use
The company finally found the one collaboration tool to rule them all. Unfortunately, it’s joining five others still in use, while leadership continues to communicate exclusively via email. A satirical look at how “single sources of truth” multiply inside modern organizations.
The Field Guide to Bumper Sticker Leadership
Leaders love to toss out slogans like “People hate change” or “We’re like a family here.” They sound sharp, but they shut down feedback and disguise deeper issues. Real resistance isn’t fear of change—it’s frustration with poor planning, muddled priorities, and chaos masquerading as strategy.
Introducing Seventyprol™
The infamous “70% of change projects fail” stat isn’t data — it’s folklore with a pharma ad makeover. Meet Seventyprol™: the placebo number that makes slides sound smart, leaders feel justified, and practitioners roll their eyes.
The Organizational Debt Collector
AI didn't create your organization's knowledge problem. It just sent the bill. The practitioners best equipped to fix it have been doing this work for years — without naming it, and without charging for it at the level it deserves.
The Cost of Being ‘Nice’ in Change Work
Being “nice” feels safe in change work—but it comes at a cost. When we smooth over conflict, delay hard truths, or prioritize approval over impact, we quietly erode our credibility and influence. True kindness means courage: telling the truth with care and leading with clarity.
The Bare Minimum Change Plan That Still Gets Results
Not every project needs a full change rollout. If you’re solo or stretched thin, a “bare minimum” plan can still deliver results. This guide shows how to reduce confusion, build trust, and drive adoption with just enough change support to matter.
Why So Many Change Practitioners Are “Open to Work”
GenX change practitioners are feeling the squeeze as orgs flatten, AI encroaches, and the profession faces an identity crisis. Survival means reframing our value—not as “change management,” but as outcomes leaders can’t ignore.
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The Organizational Debt Collector
AI didn't create your organization's knowledge problem. It just sent the bill. The practitioners best equipped to fix it have been doing this work for years — without naming it, and without charging for it at the level it deserves.
2026 AI Trends Every Business Leader Should Be Ready For
AI is moving from experimentation to everyday business reality. In 2026, the biggest gains will come not from better models, but from organizations that rethink workflows, roles, and how decisions actually happen.
How to Use AI Without Losing Your Edge
AI can speed up change work, but it can also quietly erode the thinking behind it. New research suggests overreliance on AI creates “cognitive debt,” weakening judgment, recall, and sensemaking if we’re not intentional about how we use it.