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The Growth Journal
A weekly reflection on strategy, leadership, and growth.
Written from conversations, decisions, and work in the field.
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The person who can approve a change is often not the person who can tell you whether it will work. That gap is where expensive decisions get made.
Neither chair can make the call alone. The executive knows why the change matters, what it costs, and what it has to accomplish. The process owner knows what has to change for it to survive contact with the work.
Before you approve the next system, vendor, or process change, ask who has to change how they work on Monday, and whether they are in the room right now.
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There have never been more ways to solve the same operational problem. AI lowered the cost of building software. The menu expanded.
AI did not retire the decision. It made the menu longer and gave buyers more plausible ways to get it wrong. More good options is a harder call, not a simpler one.
A long credit union sales cycle is not the cost of doing business. For a vendor who is actually credible, it is the advantage.
Not every long cycle is healthy. Productive diligence has motion: sharper questions, more people, whether to how. A dead deal repeats meetings and goes quiet. Learn the difference.
The cycle rewards the vendor credible enough to survive it. If you are buying, ask who will vouch for a vendor, and what they are risking to do it.
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A demo shows what software does under conditions the vendor controls. The term sheet shows how the vendor expects the relationship to behave when your real volume and edge cases arrive. One is a performance. The other is a wager.
The commercial terms are evidence, and most buyers skim them for the number. The demo is what the vendor wants you to see. The pricing is what they could not hide.
