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  <description><![CDATA[Electric Summit Lab offers operational, strategy, and organisational consulting for leadership teams. Based in London. Fixed-fee engagements led by Thomas Hutton.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Why operational diagnostics fail before they start]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[An operational diagnostic is supposed to tell you where your organisation is losing time and money. Most of them do exactly that. The analysis is sound, the recommendations are reasonable, and the report sits in a shared drive for six months before anyone looks at it again. The diagnostic did not fail because the analysis was wrong. It failed before the first interview was conducted.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:48:16 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Decision rights: the quiet source of most team friction]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Most team friction does not come from personality clashes or poor communication. It comes from a structural ambiguity that nobody has named: two or more people believe they have the right to make the same decision. Until that ambiguity is resolved, no amount of team-building or communication training will fix the underlying problem.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:36:18 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Why new software fails and what to do about it]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Organisations spend considerable time and money selecting the right software. They run procurement processes, evaluate vendors, negotiate contracts. Then they roll the system out and find that six months later, half the team is still using the old spreadsheet. The software was not the problem. The adoption process was.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 14:20:27 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Strategy clarification is not the same as strategy planning]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Strategy planning and strategy clarification are often treated as the same activity. They are not. Planning assumes you know what you are trying to achieve and focuses on how to get there. Clarification is the prior step: agreeing on what you are actually trying to achieve, and why, before you start planning how. Most organisations skip the clarification step and wonder why their plans do not hold.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:16:17 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Fractional consulting or a full-time hire: how to decide]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[At some point, most growing organisations face a version of the same question: do we hire someone full-time to handle strategy and operations, or do we bring in a fractional consultant? Both options have genuine merit. The right answer depends on what the organisation actually needs, which is not always the same as what it thinks it needs.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:10:03 GMT</pubDate>
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