Lloyd TaylorLinkedIn series
Six-post series published on LinkedIn, Tuesday through Thursday over two weeks. Each series takes a pattern analysts and strategists live inside and gives it a name.
It's Not Random
Six posts on accountability mechanisms, captured processes, and why the same findings keep appearing with different names.
Read the series →It Didn't Suddenly Break
Most organizational failures aren't events. They're accumulations that finally became visible. The post-mortem found the break. It didn't find the breaking.
Read the series →Working from the Inside
Six posts on authority by influence rather than line authority — three moves that work from inside the system without waiting for permission.
Read the series →The Irresistible Force
Six posts on founding visions as statistical outliers, the institutional mean that was always waiting, and three tools for holding the outlier position long enough to matter.
Read the series →The Report the System Writes
Six posts on why the conclusion is usually upstream of the analysis — and three practices for catching it before the report is filed.
Read the series →The False Dawn
Six posts on why the feeling of understanding arrives before the understanding does — and three practices for catching the false dawn.
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