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Quality Is Free. Chaos Is Extremely Expensive
Philip Crosby wrote 'Quality Is Free' in the late 1970s, when management books still reflected factory smoke. Today, modern companies still spend…
11 hrs ago
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Arkady Pildes
Esprit de l’Escalier: Why Organizations Reward Fast Thinking and Regret It Later
Corporate life rewards speed of response, while the most valuable thought often arrives only after everyone has already agreed to the wrong thing.
Jul 7
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Arkady Pildes
June 2026
King Solomon’s Paradox: Why Strategy Always Looks Easier from Outside the Building
Organizations love rational thinking right until rational thinking threatens internal equilibrium.
Jun 30
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Arkady Pildes
King Solomon’s Paradox: Why Strategy Always Looks Easier from Outside the Building
Organizations love rational thinking right until rational thinking threatens internal equilibrium.
Jun 30
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Arkady Pildes
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AI Makes Quick Wins Cheaper. It Also Makes Mistakes Scalable
AI does not make organizations smarter. It just makes them faster. Sometimes heading in the wrong direction.
Jun 23
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Arkady Pildes
Why Calm People Are Often Mistaken for Weak People
Corporate environments have a habit of mistaking emotional volatility for leadership. In reality, authority rarely looks like panic scheduled on a…
Jun 16
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Arkady Pildes
The Busiest Team in Your Company Is a Symptom
A Customer Care team that is always busy and responsive can look efficient. More often, it is the most visible sign that something upstream is broken.
Jun 9
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Arkady Pildes
From Readers to Users to Prompts
Media still makes content. It just no longer decides how, when, or even why it is consumed. Distribution happens elsewhere. Attention is filtered…
Jun 2
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Arkady Pildes
May 2026
When the Wrong KPI Starts Making Sense
Measuring AI usage instead of results looks like a category error. Most of the time, it is. But sometimes, it is less about measurement and more about…
May 26
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Arkady Pildes
The End of Product Management as We Knew It
It is not that AI is smarter. It is that it quietly made much of our work optional, and left us with the parts we usually try to avoid.
May 19
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Arkady Pildes
Stop Planning the Future. Start Designing for Change
The problem with long-term planning is not that it’s wrong. It’s that it assumes the future will cooperate.
May 12
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Arkady Pildes
“No One Reads Anything.” And Yet We Keep Publishing
We keep telling ourselves that articles matter. That nuance still lives somewhere past the headline. But for most users, the headline is the story…
May 5
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Arkady Pildes
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