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When the Numbers Rise, but the Work Drifts
In 1997, Boeing acquired McDonnell Douglas in a stock-for-stock merger. The deal marked a turning point in Boeing’s culture, as financial discipline and shareholder returns increasingly outweighed engineering quality. The cost of that shift came due twenty years later.
The Unmetabolized Returns
We are often told that the dangerous part of us is the wild part: appetite, impulse, anger, desire. But sometimes the most dangerous part is not the rebel inside us. It is the inner authority that never allows itself to be questioned.
The Room of 2030
In 2030, decisions don't wait for the room. AI flags risks and models paths before the meeting starts. But the room still resists — in ways that aren't calm.
What do Leadership, Consulting, Coaching and Change Management have in common?
They are all — to a degree — anxiety businesses. Not being attuned to hidden anxieties in the room may put you into a whirlwind of group dynamics.
Leader as Metabolic Proxy
When a leader acts as a container — absorbing tensions and providing safety — they may end up as a bottomless well. The concept of a Metabolic Proxy is an escape hatch from the therapeutic trap.
Most transformations don't fail. They "succeed" at the Wrong Task.
For decades, the 70% failure rate of corporate transformations has been blamed on poor execution. None of it helped. Because the diagnosis itself is superficial.