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Most organizations meet volatility with more strategy and tighter controls. Neither holds. We’ve spent 25+ years working with hundreds of companies — startups to Fortune 100 — figuring out what separates the ones that break from the ones that get stronger. We bring that to keynotes, workshops, and advisory engagements for teams that take the work seriously.

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What We Do.

Keynotes & Workshops.

Keynotes for audiences who’ve already heard the standard innovation talk. Frameworks the room hasn’t seen, real stories from inside the companies you’d recognize, and concrete next steps for the people who actually have to do something on Tuesday.

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Organizational Training.

Multi-day programs for leadership teams that want to do more than nod along. Structural principles, operational practices, real cases from your industry. Stop playing defense. Start building muscle.

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The Briefing.

Twice a week. ~10,000 readers.

Two short essays a week on what’s breaking, what’s rebuilding, and what to do about it. Read by 10,000+ founders, operators, and leaders.

radical Insights.

From the Briefing and the blog.

May 12, 2026

Speed Is the Consolation Prize

I was recently talking with the CEO of a startup that is building AI agents for complex, process-heavy work. In their case, it’s tax preparation – one of the most time-bound, deadline-driven functions inside CPA firms. During peak season, their agents were freeing up, on average, roughly four hours per day per tax preparer. Not at the margins, but at the center of the work. And yet, the most interesting part of the conversation wasn’t the performance of the technology, but rather the response from the organizations adopting it.

They weren’t struggling to implement the agents. They were struggling to absorb the time.

In many cases, that newly available capacity didn’t translate into a rethinking of the work itself. Instead, it triggered…

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