Real stories from thirty years inside large organizations and what they reveal about the dynamics most people never learn to read.
Each episode is a specific situation, a specific decision, and a specific insight you can apply to what you're navigating right now.
New episode every week.
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Everything your company tells you is true. And people mean what they say. Just not at the same time.
This episode is about the place where the gap between the official message and the operational reality shows up most visibly - the all-hands meeting - and about the two channels every organization runs at once.
Episode 2:
We are a Family
You are being judged on more than what shows up in your formal performance review. This episode is about a 2am phone call I thought I handled perfectly, how it cost me, and the tests nobody tells you are happening with no textbook to prepare for them.
Episode 3:
Wake Up Call
The foundation for everything that follows. What the real game actually is, where it comes from, and why understanding it changes how you read every organization you'll ever work in.
Episode 0:
It Is Physics
Episode 1:
They Made Me Do It
Most people in large organizations have heard it. In performance reviews, budget conversations, promotion discussions - the moment someone stops speaking for themselves and starts speaking for an unnamed, unreachable authority.