When Vision Becomes a Blind Spot: The Founder’s Curse
A sharp essay on how conviction, taste, and ownership can harden into a bias that blinds founders to what the organisation now needs.
LeadershipBiasStrategy
TTT Blog
The Thursday Thought should read like a serious editorial stream.
This page now carries the latest 20 TTT entries so we can judge editorial rhythm, card density, and scanability with a proper run of content.
The Santa Rally and the Ghosts of Bethlehem: Why Record Profits Can Signal Demise
A reflection on apparent success, delayed consequences, and why peak performance can sometimes conceal future decline.
SignalsLeadershipFinance
The F.O.T.O. Dilemma: The Fear of Throwing Out
An essay on letting go, strategic pruning, and why organisations often cling to old assets long after they stop serving the mission.
StrategyLetting goChange
What We See Depends on What We Can Hold: When the Puzzle Outgrows the Table
A piece about mental models, cognitive limits, and what happens when complexity exceeds the structures built to contain it.
ComplexityLearningSystems
Après Moi Le Désert: Believing It When We See It: Ireland’s Slow-Emptying Future
Aidan explores demographic drift, delayed recognition, and the strategic cost of waiting for obvious evidence before acting.
ForesightDemographicsLeadership
The Collapse of the Curve: The New Physics of Diffusion from Field to Field
A study of how ideas spread, stall, and accelerate across groups that do not all share the same language, incentives, or frames.
DiffusionAdoptionInnovation
Every New Beginning Comes from Some Other Beginning’s End: The Art of Reassembly
An essay on endings, reconfiguration, and why reinvention often looks less like invention than careful recomposition.
ReinventionTransitionsSystems
The Popeye Paradox: How Early Innovation Missteps Poison the Well
Aidan examines how poorly designed early experiments can damage trust in innovation long after the original mistake is forgotten.
Innovation cultureTrustExecution
Backwards Into The Future: What Leaders Can Learn from Telcos
A reflection on industry memory, slow drift, and what large telecoms can teach leaders about inertia and delayed adaptation.
TelcosLeadershipInertia
The Curse of Expertise: Why Experts Fail When Rules Change
An essay about the liabilities of deep expertise when the environment changes faster than the expert frame can update.
ExpertiseAdaptationLearning
Imbalance at Lego: Muscles, Microbes, and Management
Aidan connects bodily imbalance with organisational imbalance to show how strength in one area can mask weakness elsewhere.
BalanceLegoManagement
The Power of Imprinting: And the Value of Changing Lens
A piece on how early patterns and first frames shape later judgement, often long after their usefulness has expired.
BiasFramesPerception
The Little Red Riding Hood Challenge
Stories, metaphors, and inherited narratives influence strategic action more than many leaders are prepared to admit.
NarrativesStrategyCulture
Strategic Parasitism: How Customers Hijack Your Strategy
A provocative essay on how incentives and dependencies quietly redirect strategy away from intended outcomes.
CustomersStrategyDependence
Echoes of a Forgotten Self: On Past Lives, Infantile Amnesia, and Organisational Origins
An essay about organisational memory, lost origins, and the way institutions outgrow the clarity of their founding story.
MemoryOriginsIdentity
Healthy Terrain, Healthy Business: The Red Queen Hypothesis
Aidan uses the Red Queen hypothesis to explore co-evolution, healthy competition, and the conditions that keep firms adaptive.
CompetitionAdaptationEcology
Target Fixation: Intel’s Strategic Focus and the Trap of Success
A case-led essay on how past wins can narrow vision and leave strong organisations vulnerable to adjacent threats.
IntelSuccess trapsFocus
Corporate Weight Gain: Small Choices, Big Consequences
Aidan draws a line between gradual physical drift and the slow accumulation of strategic and organisational drag.
DriftChangeCompounding
The Map Is Not the Territory: The Real Shape of Strategy
A reflection on abstraction, simplification, and why strategic maps can become dangerous when leaders mistake them for reality.
StrategyAbstractionReality
Unreasonable Ambition: The Engine of Progress
A closing piece in this seed set on the value of ambition that stretches beyond the limits of current systems and habits.
AmbitionProgressLeadership