There’s a genre of professional content I’ve come to recognize instantly. It begins with confidence, proceeds with certainties, and ends with a prescription. Or worse, “Comment [enter random term]”.

• Here’s the method.
• Here’s what works.
• Here’s how to win.

And every time I see it, a small part of me cries inside.

Not because I think they’re wrong, but because I’ve been inside enough organizations to know that none of this unfolds in a vacuum. Advice that sounds brilliant on a whiteboard often dissolves the moment it hits budget constraints, team friction, or