6000 years ago, in the shadow of Egypt’s pyramids, a overseer with a whip ensured laborers toiled under the sun. Today, the whip has been replaced by KPIs, bonuses, and performance reviews. Yet the logic remains unchanged: management, as we know it, is less about guiding teams and more about transmitting threat. The overseer of […]
There is a Persian proverb that fits here perfectly: “Every walnut is round, but not every round thing is a walnut.” «هر گردویی گرد است، اما هر گردی گردو نیست» Two things can look the same from the outside and be completely different inside. Job titles work exactly like that. Someone’s title does not define […]
Nobody wants to hear this. But someone has to say it: The industry is full of people who collected certificates like trading cards, dropped a university name in their bio, and convinced a hiring manager they could secure a network they have never actually touched. It works, for a while. Then reality shows up. You […]
The Myth of the Silver Bullet Too many organizations today are under the impression that a collection of marketing buzzwords, EDR, XDR, Zero Trust, NGF, and the rest, constitutes a valid security program. They treat these acronyms as a substitute for actual strategy, delegating the entire responsibility to a team while the leadership remains detached. […]
The Problem Is Not The Worker/Employee One time I discussed this matter in depth: Because most managers have never done the things they are asking others to do. That is the root of the problem. If somebody never experienced the work themselves, they have no real understanding of: So what happens? Random and completely arbitrary […]
I have talked many times about management and why I believe a manager cannot be truly effective if s/he does not understand the details of what they are managing, but there is another part of management that I think is equally important and rarely discussed honestly: “Politics“. I grew up in a culture where keeping […]
Most management failures come back to one thing: the manager does not know what resources they actually have, and they have no technique for finding out. So they guess. They pick a deadline because of pressure from above, or because it sounds reasonable in a meeting room, or because they simply do not know what […]
There is a question that has been on my mind for a long time. Why is most management today so ineffective? Why do the things they say sound more like a wish list than a plan? I am not talking about every manager in every industry. I have seen exceptions. But the pattern I have […]
The same problem, only louder Looks like nothing has changed. The same leadership failures I talked about years ago are still here, only more polished, more decorated, and more destructive. Companies keep pretending they have “leadership,” but what they really have is a chain of people giving deadlines without understanding the work behind them. The […]
The disconnect I’ve spent years watching managers fail at the most basic part of their job: understanding the work they’re managing. Not all of them, I’ve met exceptions but most of the people I’ve dealt with across my career fall into the same pattern. They give orders with confidence, but they have no idea what […]
One of the most common misconceptions I see among business leaders is the belief that security is nothing more than a necessary expense, a cost center that exists solely to consume budget, slow projects down, create additional processes, and occasionally tell people what they cannot do. In many organizations, security is viewed the same way […]