Tag: org design


  • A Revenue Plan Is Not a Strategy

    For my last coaching session, I brought a list of questions about our team setup. One product manager wants to move to our managed service, so who takes over the areas that become free? My coach listened and then said that all of it was tactics and that the business strategy behind it was missing:…

  • Reproducibility Matters More Than Scalability

    For the past two years, the loudest debates inside our company have used the same vocabulary: scale, productivity, AI. Every quarter delivered a fresh version of the same conversation. How do we scale sales? How do we make customer success more productive? Which AI tool takes which workload off whose desk? The vocabulary came from…

  • Write the Job Description Again When the Scope Changes

    A generalist we hired early ended up doing several jobs under one title, and the debate about it went in circles. Writing the job description again, years after hiring, turned a stuck title discussion into a package both sides could negotiate.

  • The Third Report Is a Coaching Problem, Not a Ceiling

    Around the third report a team lead’s job changes. We treated it as a coaching problem, not a ceiling, and our player-coaches learned to run teams of four or five.