The Tenon
Making strategy stick.
Most strategic investments depreciate.
Boards approve transformation budgets expecting durable capability. What they usually get is temporary improvement: gains that fade the moment attention shifts, and walk out the door when key people leave.
Twenty-five years and six functions deep, I have seen this pattern dozens of times. I have also seen the opposite: change that compounds, spreads and works without its creators.
The Tenon is about the difference. What separates the investments that last from the ones that quietly depreciate. And a simple test that shows which one you are building: if everyone who built this left tomorrow, would it still work?
If you already read The Short Version on LinkedIn, this is where the rest of it is. That edition stops before the payoff on purpose, because LinkedIn will not let me email you and this will. The full argument runs here, monthly, with the sources at the foot so you can check the working.
For leaders, advisors and board members tired of reinvention that doesn't stick. One piece a month. If that is your problem, put your email in the box.
