I joined Dan Dworkis on The Emergency Mind Podcast to talk about the gap between how organizations think work gets done and how it actually does — covering informal networks, brokers, leverage points, and what network maps reveal that org charts never will.

After reading hundreds of network maps, three patterns show up in nearly every organization that struggles to execute. Here's what to look for.

Every time we share network analysis findings with a leadership team, the same thing happens. Before anyone engages with what the data means, people start looking for their names.

Most strategy failures aren't strategy problems. They're execution infrastructure problems — and they show up the same way, across industries, every time.