The Stagnation Assassin Show

Companies build gorgeous glass innovation labs, hire brilliant people, give them bean bags and ping-pong tables, and wonder why nothing transformative transfers to the actual business. These labs look like Silicon Valley startups trapped inside traditional companies—exotic animals in corporate cages.

The hilarious hypocrisy? These labs are designed to protect the core business from disruption, not transform it. It's like building a gym next to your house but never going inside. You can point to it and say, "Look, we care about fitness" while you get fatter every day.

The 90% Failure Rate

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The Karelin Method: The Simple Formula That Makes Teams 600% More Productive

One simple formula helps teams become nearly 600% more productive. It's not about working harder—it's about working obsessively on what matters. While your competition spreads effort like peanut butter across a hundred activities, giving each maybe 24 minutes weekly, you'll be hammering the handful that drive real results.

The Productivity Purgatory You're Trapped In

You're running around like a caffeinated chipmunk, checking off tasks, attending meetings, feeling furiously busy. Meanwhile, your focused competitor just ate your lunch, dinner, and to...

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Stanford research proves consensus decisions take nearly three times longer and produce 40% less bold outcomes. That's like paying triple the price for watered-down whiskey—while your competitors capture market share during your sixth meeting about the same decision.

While your leadership team sits around the conference table nodding like dashboard bobbleheads, your market opportunity evaporates like morning mist. I've seen companies where launching a new product required sign-off from 17 different stakeholders. That's not decision-making—that's decision-destroying.

The Consensus Cancer

Here's how consensus culture metastasizes: everyone gets veto power, which means the most...

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While you're perfecting your morning meditation and preserving your precious energy, your hungrier competitors are working 90-hour weeks to steal your market share—and they're loving every minute of the massacre. SpaceX engineers work 70 to 80 hours a week during critical launches, revolutionizing space travel, while you're revolutionizing your sleep schedule.

That sustainable pace you're preaching is just corporate code for comfortable mediocrity.

The Balance BS That's Bankrupting Your Business

Entire industries are infected with work-life balance worship, creating companies full of clock-watchers who treat 5:00 p.m. like a fire alarm. I've se...

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Your Customers Are Killing Your Business: The Profit Parasite Pandemic

Customer profitability analysis reveals a shocking truth: your bottom 20% of customers aren't just dead weight—they're corporate cancer consuming 150% of your total profits while you worship at the altar of "customer-centricity."

While you're sending thank-you cards to every customer with a pulse, these profit parasites are literally sucking more money out of your business than your entire company makes. Harvard research proves that the most profitable 20% of customers generate between 150% and 300% of total profits. The brutal reality? Your smallest customers are ordering custom co...

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