--- title: "Insights: Leadership | Common Sense Systems" url: https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/leadership/ description: "Articles by John Sambrook tagged Leadership, newest first." --- [Insights](https://common-sense.com/insights/) # Leadership 8 articles, newest first. [All](https://common-sense.com/insights/) [AI 33](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/)[Theory of Constraints 30](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/theory-of-constraints/)[Strategy 28](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/strategy/)[Small Business 26](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/small-business/)[Healthcare 20](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/healthcare/)[Operations 18](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/operations/)[Practical Tips 16](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/practical-tips/)[Medical Devices 9](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/medical-devices/)[Leadership 8](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/leadership/)[Case Studies 4](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/case-studies/)[Government 3](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/government/)[Workforce 3](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/workforce/) - [The No-Losers Guide: A Practical Method for Resolving Organizational Conflict](https://common-sense.com/insights/nolosers-guide/) July 21, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Theory of Constraints](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/theory-of-constraints/), [Leadership](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/leadership/) Goldratt's Evaporating Cloud method, scaled with AI assistance. - [The Same Seven Mistakes, Every Company, Every Decade](https://common-sense.com/insights/the-same-seven-mistakes-every-company-every-decade/) July 20, 2026 · [Theory of Constraints](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/theory-of-constraints/), [Medical Devices](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/medical-devices/), [Operations](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/operations/), [Leadership](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/leadership/) What 500 FDA enforcement actions reveal about how organizations think. The same seven failure patterns appear across medical device companies, decade after decade. The root cause is not poor procedures. It is cognitive biases that evolved for small-group survival but break down in modern industrial settings. - [What I Keep Seeing in Healthcare Financial Assistance Policies](https://common-sense.com/insights/healthcare-financial-assistance-patterns/) June 9, 2026 · [Theory of Constraints](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/theory-of-constraints/), [Healthcare](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/healthcare/), [Strategy](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/strategy/), [Leadership](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/leadership/) When I read financial assistance policies, I keep finding the same three conflicts. They are not paperwork problems. They are structural problems that trap staff and patients in impossible choices. - [The Room Where It Happens (Differently)](https://common-sense.com/insights/the-room-where-it-happens-differently/) March 26, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Theory of Constraints](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/theory-of-constraints/), [Strategy](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/strategy/), [Leadership](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/leadership/) When an AI participates in a problem-solving conversation, people drop defenses they have carried for decades. This is not about a better search engine. It is about changing the dynamics of the room. - [The Meeting That Could Not Have Gone Differently](https://common-sense.com/insights/the-meeting-that-could-not-have-gone-differently/) February 26, 2026 · [AI](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/ai/), [Healthcare](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/healthcare/), [Strategy](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/strategy/), [Leadership](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/leadership/) Why good people in well-run hospitals still end up in the wrong conversation, and what a structural fix might look like. - [Speed as a Strategy](https://common-sense.com/insights/speed-as-a-strategy/) September 9, 2025 · [Strategy](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/strategy/), [Leadership](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/leadership/) Why moving fast is an undervalued strategic advantage for community hospitals. - [Hidden Conflicts in Healthcare](https://common-sense.com/insights/hidden-conflicts/) August 31, 2025 · [Strategy](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/strategy/), [Leadership](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/leadership/) Give me any healthcare policy document and I will show you embedded structural conflicts. A real hospital financial assistance policy analyzed using Theory of Constraints to reveal three critical dilemmas and paths to resolution. - [Stop Blaming People](https://common-sense.com/insights/stop-blaming-people/) August 21, 2025 · [Leadership](https://common-sense.com/insights/tag/leadership/) Why blame cultures destroy healthcare organizations and how to build accountability instead.