Subject: Have You Ever Gotten Consensus on Your Team and It Fell Flat?
Have You Ever Gotten Consensus on Your Team and It Fell Flat?
May 20th, 2026 at 9:00 am EDTThere is a cost sitting in the P L of every company right now that has no line item, no owner, and no entry in any talent review you have ever run. The CFO cannot find it because it never shows up as a clean number, and nobody on the CHRO's team is ...
We’re Going Deep into the Data for this One… EBITDA Does NOT Equal Productivity
May 13th, 2026 at 12:27 pm EDTYes, I dove into the numbers and brought you all the receipts from Gallup, PWC McKinsey. We’re talking EBITDA and all the areas a leader can read it incorrectly. It’s the metric most senior leadership teams obsess over. I get it, Executive Boar ...
Your team isn't broken. But the blueprint might be expired.
May 7th, 2026 at 9:00 am EDTPart 5 of Spot the Friction is live and I have to be honest with you, this one hit differently when I was putting it together. Because this is the episode where everything starts clicking into place. We talk about the difference between productive ...
The 30th Annual ABFF is just around the corner…
April 28th, 2026 at 1:12 pm EDTDon’t miss out on this cultural extravaganza! It’s the milestone 30th anniversary of the American Black Film Festival returning to Miami Beach, May 27-31, 2026, under the celebratory theme “The Homecoming.” Founded by Jeff Friday, ABFF was ...
Have You Ever Gotten Consensus on Your Team and It Fell Flat?
April 22nd, 2026 at 7:28 pm EDTThe meeting went great. Everyone was aligned. Nobody pushed back. And 90 days later the results looked nothing like the vision. Sound familiar? What happened in that room was not agreement. It was compliance wearing alignment's outfit. And those tw ...
She Figured Out the Part Most of Us Skip...
April 19th, 2026 at 9:00 am EDTI don't forward a lot of things. But when I find something that actually addresses the real problem, I share it. Here's the real problem: the market shifted and nobody sent us a memo. If your business has been running for a few years and this year ...
It's live. And it's going to change how you hire.
April 15th, 2026 at 3:36 pm EDTIt is Wednesday. And it is here. Part 3 of Spot the Friction is live today at audaciousconceptsinc.com and this one lands differently because leadership conversations circle back to hiring. In this video, we name the thing that has been quietly sit ...
Your team isn't the problem. The execution blueprint is.
April 8th, 2026 at 3:49 pm EDTHow many times has work come back to you this month that wasn't what you asked for? Once? Twice? Enough times that you've started quietly wondering if you have the right people? Before you answer that last one, I want you to consider something. Wha ...
The Most Expensive Decisions Are the Ones That Don’t Get Made
April 1st, 2026 at 3:00 pm EDTQuick question… Are decisions inside your team actually moving forward, or just getting revisited in better-worded conversations? You might not feel it’s that big of a deal. But every delayed decision has a financial ripple effect… bottleneck ...
Where execution risk is hiding in your organization
March 26th, 2026 at 1:58 pm EDTWhy don’t leaders see execution risk until performance drops? Because most teams are solving for what they can see… not what’s actually driving the issue. They focus on outcomes, communication, and capability. But the real friction is happeni ...