🕯️ Advent of Insight · Day 8 – The Beautiful Lie of Team Autonomy
Real autonomy isn’t isolation—it’s freedom supported by clarity and trust.
Tag: alignment
Lost in the Stars: How Too Many North Star Metrics Kill Focus
The North Star metric was meant to bring clarity and alignment — one guiding light to steer decisions. But somewhere along the way, every team, product, and feature wanted its own. This post explores how multiplying “North Stars” turns strategy into noise, weakens focus, and creates illusionary alignment — and what it takes to bring real coherence back.
Team Autonomy Is a Beautiful Lie — Here’s What’s Really Holding Teams Back
Everyone loves to talk about empowered, self-organizing teams — but most so-called “autonomous” teams are trapped in invisible structures, hidden dependencies, and unclear mandates. This post uncovers why real autonomy is so rare and what it actually takes to achieve it.
The Clarity Advantage: How Separating What and How Fuels Better Results
Mixing up what needs to be done with how it should be done leads to confusion, micromanagement, and wasted effort. This post explores how separating the two brings clarity, empowers teams, and improves delivery outcomes.
Scaling Gone Wrong: How Copy-Paste Growth Kills Alignment and Innovation
Many companies think they’re scaling — but they’re just multiplying dysfunction. Learn why true growth demands more than adding teams, and how copy-paste scaling destroys alignment and innovation.