I spent a decade watching executives pour millions into “strategic planning retreats” that resulted in nothing but glossy, expensive binders gathering dust on a shelf. They were so obsessed with following a rigid, five-year roadmap that they completely missed the actual shifts happening right under their noses. They treated strategy like a math problem to
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I was sitting in a crowded coffee shop last Tuesday, surrounded by the hiss of espresso machines and a dozen overlapping conversations, when it hit me. I wasn’t just “distracted”; I was actively fighting a losing battle against my own sensory input. Most textbooks will try to explain this by throwing a mountain of jargon