"When trust erodes, information flow changes first." Oh, have I seen this play out. Things get very dangerous very quickly. It's a great example of how, when feedback loops collapse, problems inevitably emerge.
Great post. The early signals you describe are the ones most leaders miss, and you captured them clearly. Projects rarely fail due to a single big event. When I saw them fail, it was through shifts in tone, language, and interaction long before the dashboard shows anything. The way you laid out those subtle indicators makes them visible in a way people can actually use. Thank you for the post.
So true. As a Management Engineering student, I spend my days studying how to "prove everything with data".
Yet, even in university projects or company visits, I realize that intuition, that gut feeling when a process seems "too complex", arrives way before the KPI calculation.
The challenge for us newbies will be learning to trust that feeling without using it as an excuse to ignore the numbers.
Thanks so much for the feedback! I agree, this is one of those things that some needs to make you notice before you can do something about it. Hopefully enough leaders will read the article 😉
"When trust erodes, information flow changes first." Oh, have I seen this play out. Things get very dangerous very quickly. It's a great example of how, when feedback loops collapse, problems inevitably emerge.
Absolutely, it takes so little to shift the balance towards very tricky situations…
Great post. The early signals you describe are the ones most leaders miss, and you captured them clearly. Projects rarely fail due to a single big event. When I saw them fail, it was through shifts in tone, language, and interaction long before the dashboard shows anything. The way you laid out those subtle indicators makes them visible in a way people can actually use. Thank you for the post.
Thanks for the feedback, as ever! 🤩 (I’ll get back to you on our collaboration later today!)
So true. As a Management Engineering student, I spend my days studying how to "prove everything with data".
Yet, even in university projects or company visits, I realize that intuition, that gut feeling when a process seems "too complex", arrives way before the KPI calculation.
The challenge for us newbies will be learning to trust that feeling without using it as an excuse to ignore the numbers.
Thanks so much for the feedback! I agree, this is one of those things that some needs to make you notice before you can do something about it. Hopefully enough leaders will read the article 😉