<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Eric Tingom — Insights</title><description>Writing on operational clarity, leadership, execution, alignment, systems, and growth for growing businesses.</description><link>https://ericjtingom.com/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Execution Fog: The Translation That Broke</title><link>https://ericjtingom.com/articles/execution-fog-the-translation-that-broke/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ericjtingom.com/articles/execution-fog-the-translation-that-broke/</guid><description>The Monday plan and the Friday work are not the same thing. A founder notices the plan and the work no longer recognize each other.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>execution</category></item><item><title>Operational Drift: When Nobody Is Steering</title><link>https://ericjtingom.com/articles/operational-drift-when-nobody-is-steering/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ericjtingom.com/articles/operational-drift-when-nobody-is-steering/</guid><description>Operational drift is the boat moving while nobody is steering. Each deferral made sense. The pattern of deferrals did not.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>operations</category></item><item><title>The Repetition Is the Pattern: An Introduction to Operational Drift</title><link>https://ericjtingom.com/articles/the-repetition-is-the-pattern/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ericjtingom.com/articles/the-repetition-is-the-pattern/</guid><description>What gathers around the small repetition is the part that matters. The team member who stops asking. The decisions that were not supposed to be hers.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>operations</category></item><item><title>Tool Inflation: When Polished Wrong Answers Move Faster</title><link>https://ericjtingom.com/articles/tool-inflation-when-polished-wrong-answers-move-faster/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ericjtingom.com/articles/tool-inflation-when-polished-wrong-answers-move-faster/</guid><description>Each tool was added in good faith. The complexity arrived as the side effect of clarity decisions nobody held together.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>systems</category></item><item><title>Operational debt is more dangerous than technical debt.</title><link>https://ericjtingom.com/articles/operational-debt-is-more-dangerous-than-technical-debt/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ericjtingom.com/articles/operational-debt-is-more-dangerous-than-technical-debt/</guid><description>Operational debt compounds quietly through unowned decisions, unclear accountability, and operational gaps leadership teams normalize too slowly.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>operations</category></item><item><title>Welcome</title><link>https://ericjtingom.com/articles/welcome/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ericjtingom.com/articles/welcome/</guid><description>Setting up shop at ericjtingom.com — what this site is for and what to expect.</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>leadership</category></item></channel></rss>