Practical thinking on technology leadership, AI, growth, sourcing, and cyber — from the people who do the work. One honest post a week. Nothing for sale.
Small municipalities and mid-market companies buy technology from the same two sources: vendors selling the product, and analysts writing for organizations ten times their size. How to build a ninety-day decision when no neutral source exists at your scale.
Deciding alone is a structural condition, not a character flaw. What decision isolation costs operationally, what the research shows, and the five-person outside circle that fixes it.
Executive dinners increasingly double as sales funnels. A genuinely agenda-free gathering still exists — here is what it requires.
The most honest AI conversations are happening in small, closed, peer-led rooms — not on conference main stages. The difference is structural: who controls the agenda, who pays for the stage, and whether anyone in the room needs your business.
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