One of the most common—and least examined—failures in organizations, frameworks, and teams is the attempt to combine two good ways of doing the same thing. We see this constantly. And, it is one of the most difficult cognitive operations to do right. People collect frameworks (which are already problematic), then stack them, mash them up, and proudly present the result as sophistication. What they’ve actually built is usually a monstrosity: impressive on slides, fragile in practice....

By Derek Cabrera Richard Branson recently said: “Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make...