Notes from inside the operating model.
Weekly observations from working with founder-led $25M+ companies. Built on the Theory Reality Gap framework — practical, structural, written for operators who would rather see the pattern early.
The Implementation Worked. The Investment Didn’t.
Most AI and transformation investments fail at value realization, not implementation. Here's where the value actually disappears — and how to find…
Technological Gaslighting
Five platforms. Six dashboards. Three reporting lines. A to-do list that is not humanly possible — and a calendar that confirms. By…
Spirit Airlines Didn’t Fail Because of Fuel Prices
Spirit Airlines shut down on Friday. Seventeen thousand people lost their jobs. Sixty thousand passengers a day left scrambling. Every headline says…
A $98 Million ERP That Could Not Ship an Order
Tennant Company makes industrial floor cleaning equipment. Solid business. Publicly traded. About $1.2 billion in annual revenue. The kind of company that…
What HR Sees — and What Organizations Refuse to Hear
Technological Gaslighting, Burnout, and the Strategic Misalignment Nobody Wants to Name Searcie Cassidine | Cassidine Consulting | April 2026 AI made everything…
Your Residents Aren’t Leaving Because of Rent
We keep losing residents and we don’t know why. Your rents are competitive. The units are in good shape. You renovated the…
Why Running the Company Feels Harder After Every Improvement
I had three conversations this week with founders running companies between $40M and $90M. One in specialty manufacturing. One in healthcare services.…
Why Manager Training Isn’t Fixing Your Managers (And What Will)
You hear it at every CEO roundtable, every board dinner, every frustrated text to a peer: “My leadership team won’t step up.”…
AI Adds Speed. What Happens Next Depends on What You Built First.
Every business is managing three things at once to keep their organization in balance: cost, quality, and speed. They are always in…
88% of AI Initiatives Are Failing — Here’s What’s Actually Broken
Most AI initiatives fail because they're deployed into broken execution systems. Learn the three questions to answer before your next AI investment.
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