A PE bankruptcy specialist and BCG partner walk into a bar...

Just kidding, they walked into HBR... and they're trying to sell you a framework!

Product Manager Brian Orlando and Enterprise Business Agility Leader Om Patel dissect the April HBR piece arguing that "consensus decision-making doesn't work in the AI era." By the end, you'll spot the sales funnel dressed as thought leadership, understand who profits from "autonomous scrum," and (hopefully) never read a management article the same way again.

Listen or Watch as we discuss and debate:
• Why the OVIS framework is RACI in a trench coat
• How the authors' try to undermine building consensus
• What "autonomous scrum" is (it's just scrum)
• The fiduciary duty argument
• A Peacetime/Wartime CEO concept lifted without attribution
• Questions to ask whenever an HBR article recommends a specific consulting firm's methodology

HBR: Decision-Making by Consensus Doesn't Work in the AI Era (Rosenthal/Zuckerman, 2026-04-07)
https://hbr.org/2026/04/decision-making-by-consensus-doesnt-work-in-the-ai-era

#DecisionMaking #ManagementConsulting #CorporateGovernance

Harvard Business Review, Saybrook Capital, Boston Consulting Group, United Airlines bankruptcy 2002-2006, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, Working Backwards by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr, RACI matrix, Jeff Bezos, Marty Cagan

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