by KamyarShah | Dec 24, 2025 | Blog, Strategy Consulting
The Strategy-Deck Fallacy The greatest failure in modern leadership is the belief that strategy is a document. Executives spend weeks preparing for off-sites, debating market positioning, and crafting vision statements, believing that the intellectual clarity of the...
by KamyarShah | Dec 24, 2025 | Blog, Strategy Consulting
The Deterministic Nature of Compensation The most expensive delusion in the corporate world is the belief that culture eats strategy for breakfast. In reality, incentives eat both. Strategy does not fail because people are irrational, emotional, or resistant to...
by KamyarShah | Dec 24, 2025 | Blog, Strategy Consulting
The Myth of Shared Ownership In the modern executive lexicon, “shared ownership” is often celebrated as the pinnacle of collaborative culture. Leaders instinctively believe that if the entire leadership team “owns” a strategic initiative, the...
by KamyarShah | Dec 24, 2025 | Blog, Strategy Consulting
The Cost of Unnamed Authority Strategy does not fail because leaders disagree. It fails because the organization never made it explicit who has the authority to decide and whose objections no longer matter once a decision is made. In the early stages of growth,...
by KamyarShah | Dec 23, 2025 | Blog, Strategy Consulting
The Illusion of Progress The most expensive meeting in any organization is the one that is held for the third time to decide the same thing. In scaling companies, this phenomenon creates a distinct form of executive exhaustion: decision déjà vu. Leadership teams leave...
by KamyarShah | Dec 23, 2025 | Blog, Strategy Consulting
The Empowerment Trap The most dangerous lie in modern management is that empowerment automatically leads to speed. Leaders, eager to avoid the stigma of micromanagement, often broadcast a vague directive to “move fast and break things,” assuming that if they step...
by KamyarShah | Dec 23, 2025 | Blog, Strategy Consulting
Executive Summary In the modern executive lexicon, “alignment” is revered as a primary virtue. Leaders instinctively believe that if their teams are not executing effectively, the root cause must be a lack of shared understanding or vision. Consequently, they deploy...
by KamyarShah | Dec 22, 2025 | Blog, Strategy Consulting
Strategy rarely collapses in one dramatic moment. More often, it degrades quietly—through operational signals leaders misread as people problems, market noise, or “normal growing pains.” By the time the word failure gets used, the system has already been breaking for...
by KamyarShah | Dec 21, 2025 | Blog, Strategy Consulting
Most leaders who consider strategy consulting aren’t asking for a philosophy lesson. They’re asking a painfully practical question: If we invest in strategy, what will be different in 90 days? That question matters because “strategy” is one of the most abused words in...
by KamyarShah | Dec 21, 2025 | Blog, Strategy Consulting
Most small and mid-sized businesses don’t struggle because they lack ideas.They struggle because “strategy” appears at the wrong altitude, in the wrong format, and without a mechanism that compels decisions to become execution. In a growth-stage company, that mismatch...
