Smoke Signals
Ideas examined carefully, written plainly.
Essays and analysis on organizational performance, decision quality, technology, and the parts of strategy that only show up under pressure. No listicles, no hot takes - writing meant to be useful a year from now.
Which Invisible Tax resource should I use?
A plain-language guide to choosing among the main book, the complimentary BRMConnect Field Guide, the available workbook, and the BRMConnect Special Edition in development.
Read the essay →- Coordination & Trust
After the keynote: choose one seam to examine
A practical follow-up for leaders who want to move from an interesting idea to one focused cross-team improvement.
September 21, 2026 · 3 min read
- AI & Organizations
Why AI makes good teams faster and bad teams worse
New tools do not change an organization's operating conditions. They reveal how much those conditions were already costing.
August 23, 2026 · 1 min read
- Coordination & Trust
The boxes and the arrows
Organizations manage functions with great care and manage the seams between them almost by accident: even though the seams carry the consequential work.
August 12, 2026 · 1 min read
- Coordination & Trust
Trust is a gauge, not a lever
Trust is evidence about a relationship. Treating it as a lever produces workshops instead of change.
July 31, 2026 · 1 min read
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