Every episode takes one spectacular corporate misstep, pokes it with a stick, examines the fallout, and asks the only question that matters: How did a billion-dollar enterprise manage to screw up so bigly?
Somewhere, right now, a well-compensated leadership team is nodding along to a strategy that will, in eighteen months, become a case study. Not the good kind. This is the podcast for the eighteen-months-later part.
Each month we take a single, glorious meltdown, the recall, the pivot, the data breach, the acquisition that made no sense, the memo that leaked, and we discover the downstream impacts. We'll review our own KPIs: Knowledge, Perspective, and of course Impact.
No gotchas, no dunking for its own sake, well, maybe a little dunking. Mostly it's figuring out how smart, expensive, advised people talk themselves into a decision that a mildly attentive intern could have flagged. Because the answer is almost never stupidity.