Nailed it. The real disruption isn’t AI. It’s tempo. That gap doesn’t just slow things down, it breaks them. It kills momentum, drains teams, and turns vision into drift. Crashed OODA "loops" everywhere.
"Tempo Shock" is the right phrase. Quiet, creeping, corrosive. I’ve seen it in boardrooms, military units, sports teams, portfolio management teams and field sales/consulting teams alike. Your board packet example is perfect. Insight didn’t change. The clock did. And that’s the real war now.
Nailed it. The real disruption isn’t AI. It’s tempo. That gap doesn’t just slow things down, it breaks them. It kills momentum, drains teams, and turns vision into drift. Crashed OODA "loops" everywhere.
"Tempo Shock" is the right phrase. Quiet, creeping, corrosive. I’ve seen it in boardrooms, military units, sports teams, portfolio management teams and field sales/consulting teams alike. Your board packet example is perfect. Insight didn’t change. The clock did. And that’s the real war now.
This essay = Signal!
Humans aren’t built for this