Jack Welch, the legendary General Electric CEO, was infamous for firing the bottom 10% of his workforce every year, without exception. The company’s market cap rose substantially during Welch’s tenure, but his “rank and yank” ritual was divisive.

If you knew your job was always on the line, the logic went, you’d push harder and generate results. But what did this approach do to…

Software is eating the world, venture capitalist and entrepreneur Marc Andreessen famously declared in 2011. The ensuing 15 years proved him prescient. In February 2026, a Substack article by Citrini Research grabbed headlines and triggered a market sell-off of SaaS (software-as-a-service) firms, wiping out nearly $1 trillion in market value in a matter of days. Citrini’s central thesis? A…

Growth has a way of outpacing the quality systems built to support it: more products, more sites, more users, more regulatory requirements, and the quality team is expected to absorb all of it.

Document reviews stall waiting for approvals. Training assignments require constant follow-up. Approval requests pile up into “signature meetings.” Records take hours to put together when…