08 Sep Episode 037 – The Work That Always Loses Is the Work Nobody Is Waiting On
SummaryUnder load you shed work in a preset order, the same way a grid sheds load to protect itself, and that order runs on external...
01 Sep Episode 036 – The Default That Got You Promoted Is the One That Costs You Under Pressure
SummaryPressure does not create behaviour. It amplifies what is already there, so the tendency that got you promoted is the one that costs you when...
26 Aug Episode 035 – What an Empty House Taught Me About Reading a Polished Deck
SummarySeventeen and a half years and six kids leave a mark on a house, and none of it was visible until the furniture came out....
18 Aug Episode 034 – One Is Reps. The Other Is Renting Someone Else’s
SummaryChris stands in his dad’s kitchen looking at a ceiling that took fifty years to get that clean, then clocks a two-foot gap in his...
04 Aug Episode 033 – An Apology Isn’t a Correction, It’s a Second Data Point
Summary A canceled Saturday morning meeting with a carpenter becomes the anchor for a mechanism most people get backwards: an apology for missing a commitment isn’t...
28 Jul Episode 032 – I Was Waiting for an Instrument to Make My Decision
SummaryEpisode 031 ended on a question. What signal survives a new contract landing on your laptop? The answer is none. The scaffolding was built to...
21 Jul Episode 031 – The Scaffolding Was the Income.
SummaryChris built his exit trigger around one event: the day his contract ended, he would tear down the scaffolding and go all in on coaching....
14 Jul Episode 030 – You Wrote the Exit Criteria. You Never Aimed at Them.
SummaryChris set a revenue target that would let him stop taking industrial engineering work and move to coaching full time. Three years later the criteria...
07 Jul Episode 029 – The Correction Worked in the Room. It Never Left the Room.
SummaryA junior engineer looked right on paper and, once he was pressure tested in a lead role, revealed a values gap that no hire pre-mortem...
01 Jul Episode 028 – His Complaint Was the Tell. I Read It as Alignment.
SummaryA senior engineer’s complaints about his previous employer sounded like a values match. Chris hired him. Fifteen months later, the same standard operating procedures that...