https://www.mddouyon.com/ Essays on business, culture, and the space between. en Mon, 02 Nov 2026 16:26:00 GMT https://www.mddouyon.com/format-is-strategy-choosing-communication/ https://www.mddouyon.com/format-is-strategy-choosing-communication/ Most organizations never ask whether a meeting, an email, or an essay is the right container for a decision—and the format they default to quietly determines the quality of the thinking inside it. A taxonomy of corporate communication failures, and rules of thumb for fixing them. M.D. Douyon Workplace Culture Mon, 02 Nov 2026 16:04:50 GMT https://www.mddouyon.com/prose-as-collateral-consulting-writing/ https://www.mddouyon.com/prose-as-collateral-consulting-writing/ Clients rarely see your analysis before they hire you. What they see is your writing—and they price accordingly. Clear prose is the cheapest, most underrated trust signal in advisory work. M.D. Douyon Advisory Practice Mon, 02 Nov 2026 16:04:50 GMT https://www.mddouyon.com/quiet-restructuring-american-workplace-2025/ https://www.mddouyon.com/quiet-restructuring-american-workplace-2025/ Beneath the headlines about layoffs and office politics, deeper cultural currents are redrawing the American workplace. Five shifts leaders should understand now—before they show up in the org chart. M.D. Douyon Workplace Culture Mon, 02 Nov 2026 12:04:53 GMT https://www.mddouyon.com/uncomfortable-invoice-price-of-candor/ https://www.mddouyon.com/uncomfortable-invoice-price-of-candor/ The most valuable thing a consultant delivers is often the sentence nobody in the room wants to hear. This essay considers why candor is commercially difficult, professionally necessary, and the only durable basis for trust. M.D. Douyon Advisory Practice Mon, 02 Nov 2026 12:04:53 GMT