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The issues

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Here is what is on the way. Each issue is one situation worked through in plain language, and one tool to go with it.

No. 1

The Man Who Never Gets Lost

The best navigator we know loses a parking lot, and every brain turns out to carry its own map.

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No. 2 · September

The pay gap report you have not started

BC’s reporting threshold drops to fifty employees on November 1. The deadline is the easy part.

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No. 3

The Sweater

A colleague counted the sweater going on and off in one meeting. Everyone saw it; nobody had the word. What a workplace cannot name, it cannot accommodate, budget for, or count.

Coming
No. 4

The binder on the shelf

The strategy retreat that went nowhere, and the eight-question test for strategy that gets operationalized.

Coming
No. 5

We are about 90 percent done

The project that stayed 90 percent done for three months, and the walk-one-milestone test.

Coming
No. 6

It is 4 p.m. on a Friday

The complaint that lands late on a Friday, handled with care, plus the first-48-hours checklist.

Coming
No. 7

Whoever does invoicing at 10 p.m.

A real, anonymized story of getting hours back with practical AI, and the one-task-first rule.

Coming
No. 8

Too big for winging it

The founder who outgrew doing it all, and the dream-job-ad exercise for knowing what to hire for.

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