by Laurie Battaglia | Aug 24, 2026 | Newsletter, Systems Thinker Series
Here’s a scenario we see over and over. A 180-person company is doing well. Revenue is climbing. The team that built the place — the founder, an early VP or two, a handful of directors — is still largely intact. The culture feels strong. Then, in the span of a single...
by Laurie Battaglia | Aug 7, 2026 | Newsletter, Systems Thinker Series
Let’s get real about something. Most companies don’t Google “leadership development consulting” because things are going great. They search it when a high-performing individual contributor just got promoted and is quietly imploding. When their frontline leaders are...
by Laurie Battaglia | Jul 6, 2026 | Newsletter, Systems Thinker Series
Over the last two articles in this series, we’ve covered a lot of uncomfortable territory for some. We talked about reactive leadership and managing symptoms and how the same fires keep coming back because the conditions that created them never changed. We also talked...
by Laurie Battaglia | Jun 28, 2026 | Newsletter, Systems Thinker Series
Recently, I wrote about leaders who manage symptoms instead of solving problems. Your responses were telling because a lot of you recognized yourselves in it. So, let’s go one level deeper. Because here’s something I’ve watched happen in well-run organizations with...
by Laurie Battaglia | Jun 19, 2026 | Newsletter, Systems Thinker Series
Let me describe a leader I’ve met in almost every organization I’ve worked with. They’re smart, work hard, they put out fires faster than almost anyone on their team, and every single week, they’re putting out the same fires. Sound familiar? I want you to think about...
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