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Normalized Dysfunction: The Hidden Tax on Every Transformation

Before launching any change effort, find out what’s functioning and what’s functioning around a problem. The difference is where your real ROI lives. Every organization has a department that should be half its size. You can usually spot it during a transformation kickoff. The team in question has more headcount than seems necessary, more processes […]

One Company, Two Workforces: The AI Fault Line Your Engagement Survey Cannot See

Two directors in the same function at a client of mine, same leader, same AI tools, described the same eighteen months in language so different you would not believe they worked at the same company. The first told me AI had been the most energizing development of her career. She was doing analysis she never […]


The Ones Who Go Quiet: Why Silence, Not Resistance, Is the Real Warning Sign in a Change

In a change, leaders chase the loud resisters and miss the people who go quiet, who are often the strongest performers already rehearsing their exit. Here is why silence is the real leading indicator and how to build an early-warning system that catches it.

The Competence Trap: Why the Skills That Get People Promoted Are the Ones That Hold Them Back

The best analyst on a team I advised was promoted to lead it, and within six months she was drowning. Not because she had gotten worse at the work. She had gotten better. She was still the fastest, most accurate, most reliable person in the room. That was the problem. She kept doing the work […]

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Jesse Jacoby


Jesse Jacoby, Founder of Emergent and Author of Emergent JournalI am the editor of this blog and founder of Emergent, a boutique consulting firm specializing in business transformation and strategic change. Welcome!

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