Tim Woodring

Macro-trends-armchairist-maxxer, strained optimist, PhD in Org Change, CSO @ Unbridled

[Tim Woodring @timwoodring]

Yesterday I was hooded as a Doctor of Philosophy from Colorado State University. A journey I started in 2018.

Only 1.2% of Americans hold a PhD. Not because the work is rare. Because most people quit.

To do a hard thing was the point.

Soli Deo gloria.

[Tim Woodring @timwoodring]

Eight Microsoft employees. One CEO they'd never met. Eight completely different versions of "responsible leadership."

The leader doesn't hand it down. The follower builds it.

Wrote up the dissertation here: https://t.co/D9KS4x8CIt

#Leadership

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People ask me how I stay so optimistic. The honest answer: I read the data, not the headlines.

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What replaces the annual plan isn't a tighter plan.

It's a Loop. Scan, Story, Stake, Steer. Run continuously. Held by the senior team. Treated as the actual job.

Long-form: https://t.co/unMQO3VpvI

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By the second week of April, your annual plan is fiction.

Wrote in November. Two-day offsite. Board nodded.

By April: a tariff, a customer reorg, a hire that didn't land — and you're not running the plan anymore. You're rationalizing it.

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What none of them had — until now — is the substrate to make this discipline continuous instead of episodic.

Wack ran scenario sessions quarterly at best. The work was always limited by how often senior teams could sit in a room and grind through it.

That constraint is gone.

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