The Workaround Is the Warning

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0600

Almost every team I’ve worked with has quietly built a workaround around someone. A peer double-checks a certain person’s numbers before anyone else sees them. A task that used to go to the whole group now routes around one desk, and nobody ever said so out loud.

Nobody calls it a workaround, either. It gets a smaller label, like “just being careful” or “that’s how we do it now.” By the time it has a name, the decision it covers has usually been waiting a while.

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The Workaround Is the Warning