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An Open Letter to HP's Board, and Every Board Governing an Innovation-Dependent Organization
What innovation-dependent organizations need from their boards, and four places to start.
HP Has Fired, Forced Out, or Lost 6 CEOs in 25 Years. Here We Go Again.
Two CEO successions hit on the same day. Disney chose a 28-year insider. HP's board is starting from scratch — again.
How to Stop Overthinking Your Decisions
Gathering more information feels responsible. There's a point where it tips into overthinking and keeps you stuck.
How I Bankrupted Two Companies
It wasn't bad decisions. It was no decisions. I had technology that could beat Intel and HP. My team waited for direction. I gave them meetings.
Mindjacking: When Your Opinions Aren't Yours
Every day you make decisions you think are yours. Most aren't. The algorithm decided, the expert weighed in, the crowd chose. You just clicked agree.
How I Mindjacked Boards for a Living
A Confession from Inside the Consulting Industrial Complex
CES 2026: Battle of the AI Robots
From AI toilets to fire trucks that shave seconds off response times, here's what 50,000 steps on the show floor revealed about where tech is headed.
Thinking 101: A Pause, A Reflection, And What Might Come Next
Twenty-one years. That's how long I've been doing this. Producing content. Showing up. Week after week, with only a handful of exceptions—most of them involving hospitals and cardiac surgeons, but that's another story. After twenty-one years, you learn what lands and what doesn&
Mental Models — Your Thinking Toolkit
Before the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986, NASA management officially estimated the probability of catastrophic failure at one in one hundred thousand. That's about the same odds as getting struck by lightning while being attacked by a shark. The engineers working on the actual rockets? They estimated
The Million-Dollar Decision I Got Wrong (And Why I'm Grateful)
I built 3COM's largest network. Then I turned down the job offer.
