Operational debt compounds through decisions, dependencies, and human workarounds, leaving organizations increasingly unstable as scale and execution pressure increase.
What the U.S. constitutional system can teach us about coordination: why distributed authority, dependencies, and constraints can create necessary friction rather than dysfunction.
Growth exposes decision authority that was never clearly assigned, turning implied ownership into delayed decisions, escalation confusion, and operational paralysis.
AI adoption is changing who leads the conversation inside some organizations. In [What senior leaders want to know about AI](https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/what-senior-leaders-want-to-know-about-ai), MIT Sloan School of Management