Operating insights
The Playconomix Playbook
Practical field notes on product, sourcing, supply chain, community, leadership, and building companies that can handle their next stage.
If the same problem appears in three meetings, the meeting is part of the problem.
Teams often believe awareness equals action. Everyone nods, agrees the issue matters, and leaves w...
Your business should not reorganize itself around every weird order.
Growing companies let exceptions hijack normal work. One strange shipment appears, six people stop, and the grou...
Replacing a person will not fix a job designed to fail.
When something keeps breaking, leaders reach for the easiest explanation: somebody is not good enough. Sometimes that is tru...
A manager is not a human forwarding address.
If every problem travels through a manager and lands unchanged on the founder’s desk, you did not create leverage. You added a tollboot...
Let’s kill one of the dumbest ideas in modern business: holding people accountable does not ruin culture. Avoiding hard conversations ruins culture.
I’ve watched good companies tie...
Busy is not a business result. Slack messages are not a business result. Meetings are not a business result. Ninety percent complete is definitely not a business result.
I have see...
