Observation: Personal excellence doesn’t scale by imitation

Many leaders struggle to scale how they work because they attempt to copy visible artefacts, AI tools, templates, and workflows, rather than the underlying thinking that makes those artefacts effective.

The result is predictable. Speed is optimised before clarity. Delivery crowds out sense-making. What works for one individual collapses when applied across a team.

The failure is not a lack of tools. It’s the absence of a portable way of thinking that holds under real operating conditions.

A similar dynamic appears in Leverage comes from removing friction, not adding capability.