October 18, 2026
MYTH: "Go fully async, meetings are dead." The correction: async is default, not absolute. A decision with 3+ stakeholders and real disagreement dies in a thread. Match the channel to the work, by rul…
October 11, 2026
MYTH: "One person owning it is efficient." The correction: a single owner with no backup is a single point of failure wearing a productivity costume. One owner is right; zero documented backups is not…
October 8, 2026
MYTH: "QA happens at the end." The correction: end-stage QA finds problems when they're most expensive to fix. Put a small gate at each handoff so defects can't travel downstream. SOP: Stage-gate QA R…
October 4, 2026
MYTH: "Copy the industry best practice." The correction: a best practice is someone else's solution to someone else's constraints. Copy the problem-solving, not the artifact. Run their playbook throug…
October 1, 2026
MYTH: "Just keep one source of truth." The correction: declaring a single source doesn't make the other five copies disappear. You need a written rule for which doc wins and where the others must poin…
September 30, 2026
MYTH: "Just have new hires shadow someone." The correction: shadowing transfers vibes, not procedures. People copy what they happened to see, including the bad habits. Give them runnable SOPs and veri…
