01 · 20 MAY 2026
Values can be right and still fail in execution
On the translation layer between the people setting direction and the people expected to make it real.
Field notes
What we see inside programmes that have lost direction. Each one takes a single mechanism, at the point where every person involved is still doing something reasonable.
02 · 27 MAY 2026
Six weeks late, and no single point of failure
How the real reason gets filtered out before it reaches the top.
03 · 9 JUNE 2026
Why the status stays green
Honest at the bottom, green at the top: how bad news loses its words on the way up.
04 · 18 JUNE 2026
The decision is still on the slide
No one defied it. Each team did the reasonable thing with the version it was given.
05 · 25 JUNE 2026
Fear sits in a position, not a personality
An instruction makes sense where it was written. By the time it reaches the work, it has changed shape.
06 · 1 JULY 2026
They are just like that
The sentence that explains everything and examines nothing.
07 · 15 JULY 2026
Alignment completed
At head office, every room agreed with the new direction. The sites are still waiting to see what actually changes.
08 · 5 AUGUST 2026
Fear enters the room before he does
A leader who is none of the bad bosses, and a team that has learned to say as little as possible.
09 · 26 AUGUST 2026
Neither trust nor control
A yes was true the day it was given. Nobody confirmed it again.