Two numbers that tell you if a project will move
Instinct, with a formula attached. I built a crude test to fix a broken budget process, and it worked. Explaining why it worked has taken rather longer.
They're selling you a noun
When a way of behaving gets frozen into a thing you can buy, someone has just turned a verb into a noun and put a price on it.
The sentence I buried at the bottom of the page
A confident forecast I wrote at the top of the blockchain hype turned out wrong. How it was wrong is the useful part.
The Rule of 3s
Big things don't stall because the plan was wrong. They stall because nobody picked a clear first step on a well-defined path.
Old Fiddles and Young Guns
A provocative thought-experiment about novel ways to staff an organisation turns out, on closer inspection, to bring out key insights into what actually makes one work.