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Why Some Leadership Teams Unlock Stranded Capacity While Others Remain Prisoners of Annual Budget Cycles. Last night, an executive coach posed a question to a forum of leaders: "Can you recognize value you didn't expect or never experienced before, where there is no historical performance data to cling to?" The question matters because most companies are sitting on massive stranded capacity right now. You're paying for three to five times more productive capacity than you're

THE ICEBERG MOMENT For decades, we've understood OPEX through a simple equation: more growth requires more people (and other resource), more people require more budget, more budget requires board approval. This linear thinking has shaped every strategic planning session, every headcount request, every departmental expansion. But here's what's happening beneath the surface—the part of the iceberg you can't see from the boardroom: Some of your existing teams could already be op