Allen Kamin

Ideas

Major arguments, essays, white papers, and research-informed perspectives.

The Effort–Impact GapTwo lines start from the same point. The dashed intended path rises toward the outcome the work was meant to produce. The solid actual path ends well below it, and the distance between them is the gap.The gapIntendedActualSame starting effort
Conceptual illustration, not measured data.

Impact versus activity

Why organizations confuse process completion, defensibility, and implementation with success.

Design for real work

Friction, usability, adoption, organizational context, and the limitations of idealized solutions.

Better organizational decisions

Leadership judgment, evidence, talent systems, analytics, and AI.

Change that sticks

Organizational capacity, competing interventions, implementation, and sustained outcomes.