Consensus is not Clarity - Hamlet's Window
Most teams don’t walk into strategy sessions trying to deceive each other. They walk in with goodwill, experience, and a plan. And yet, again and again, what looks like consensus in the room quietly u
The Myth of the Rational Group
Smart people in a room don’t guarantee smart decisions, that without structure, even highly capable teams default to bias, politeness, and strategic drift. We revisit the Bay of Pigs, where Kennedy consulted more than 40 of the nation’s sharpest minds and yet made a disastrous decision, not because the intelligence was flawed, but because the group lacked the structure to process it.
You Can't Walk a Cat
Groups don’t move just because a good plan exists, they move when their internal dynamics are intentionally structured. Strategy doesn’t fail from lack of intelligence, it fails when we ignore how humans actually behave in groups.