by Todd | May 26, 2026 | Leadership
The Consulting Incentive Trap: Why Big Four Economics Reward Your Crisis, Not Your Cure Todd Takeaway I want to be careful with this argument because it is easy to misread. I am not saying consultants are bad people. I have worked alongside brilliant partners at MBB...
by Todd | May 25, 2026 | Karelin Method
Proprietary Strategy Framework: The 50-Hour Boundary — Why Intensity Is Not Hours STAGNATION ASSASSIN / CHAPTER 3 / THE HARD BOUNDARY THE 50-HOUR BOUNDARY Intensity isn’t hours. Stanford and Harvard research proves productivity peaks at ~50 hours. Beyond 55,...
by Todd | May 24, 2026 | 80-20
Proprietary Strategy Framework: The 80/20² Revolution — Recursive Pareto and the Hidden 4% STAGNATION ASSASSIN / CHAPTER 4 / EXPONENTIAL CONCENTRATION THE 80/20² REVOLUTION The Pareto Principle recurses. Inside your top 20%, another 80/20 distribution exists. Most...
by Todd | May 24, 2026 | Leadership
Proprietary Strategy Framework: The Truth Beneath Gross Margin — ABC Forensics on a $1,000 Transaction STAGNATION ASSASSIN / CHAPTER 4 / HOW ACCOUNTING LIES TO YOU THE TRUTH BENEATH GROSS MARGIN One $1,000 transaction. Two stories. Traditional accounting says...
by Todd | May 22, 2026 | Leadership
The Trade Media Verdict: What Kirkus and BlueInk Said About Book 1 vs Book 2 Two of the toughest reviewers in trade publishing reviewed both books. Both moved up multiple tiers between them. And both flagged the same structural problem in Book 1 that Book 2 was built...
