Most of what we know comes from watching good plans get stuck inside real organizations, from state agencies to global companies. We write it down so you can spot the pattern in your own shop before it costs you a year. There are three ways to follow along.
One short email a week. Each issue takes a problem most leaders will recognize (the status report nobody reads, the right person in the wrong seat) and traces it back to the system that keeps producing it.
Nick spent more than 30 years inside large organizations, including leading procurement at HP and HPE. Execution Postmortem by NiVACK looks at why plans fail after they’re approved: the five-year strategy that dies in year one, the budget that quietly overrules the plan, the strategy nobody in operations owns.
Shorter takes from the team, posted between newsletters.
Longer write-ups of NiVACK work, with client details removed.
