Field Note: The Carthage Error (When Patience Becomes a Liability)
This is a note about what happens when experienced people apply the right strategy to the wrong clock. Why this note exists During periods of major institutional reorganization, aggressive corporate integrations, or prolonged structural shifts, I often observe a specific pattern among highly experienced professionals. What I notice is not panic. It is patience. Careful, disciplined patience. People doing exactly what had worked for them for twenty years. And I frequently find myself thinking that this is precisely the problem.
