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The unseen turtles

Jan 30, 2026

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4 min read

The unseen turtles

Why strategy fails under the surface

Ronell Smith
Ronell Smith
The DART defunding debate is a permission structure failure

Jan 28, 2026

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2 min read

The DART defunding debate is a permission structure failure

Why data keeps losing to tax scarcity, political exposure, and approval risk in North Texas

Ronell Smith
Ronell Smith
Finding the constraint I didn’t want to see

Jan 27, 2026

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4 min read

Finding the constraint I didn’t want to see

How certainty, not care, became the bottleneck—and what releasing it unlocked

Ronell Smith
Ronell Smith
The institutional trap

Jan 24, 2026

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3 min read

The institutional trap

How senior leaders lose leverage when their value only works inside one building

Ronell Smith
Ronell Smith
The hidden reason great ideas die

Jan 9, 2026

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5 min read

The hidden reason great ideas die

Translation: why I built Narrative Alchemy

Ronell Smith
Ronell Smith
The "invisible veto" that kills your city's best chances for smart growth

Jan 8, 2026

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4 min read

The "invisible veto" that kills your city's best chances for smart growth

Hint: it's not NIMBY's

Ronell Smith
Ronell Smith
Why modern leadership requires public-governance skills

Jan 1, 2026

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2 min read

Why modern leadership requires public-governance skills

Why modern leadership requires public-governance skills

Ronell Smith
Ronell Smith
The Narrative Operating System (NOS)

Dec 31, 2025

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2 min read

The Narrative Operating System (NOS)

A system for decision clarity at organizational speed

Ronell Smith
Ronell Smith
Stop storytelling. Start building narrative infrastructure

Dec 30, 2025

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2 min read

Stop storytelling. Start building narrative infrastructure

Why strategy collapses when narrative is decoration

Ronell Smith
Ronell Smith
The silent killer of strategy: understanding decision drift

Dec 30, 2025

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3 min read

The silent killer of strategy: understanding decision drift

Why disciplined organizations wake up misaligned—and don’t know when or how it happened.

Ronell Smith
Ronell Smith
The four failures of organizational narrative

Dec 29, 2025

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5 min read

The four failures of organizational narrative

Why high-stakes initiatives stall—and how to fix the decision architecture.

Ronell Smith
Ronell Smith
From enemy to ally: A leadership moment

Dec 12, 2025

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3 min read

From enemy to ally: A leadership moment

People don’t remember arguments. They remember moments.

Ronell Smith
Ronell Smith
Why your team keeps relitigating the same decisions

Dec 11, 2025

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5 min read

Why your team keeps relitigating the same decisions

How misaligned narratives, incentives, and safety signals quietly resurrect decisions you thought were settled.

Ronell Smith
Ronell Smith
You don't have a messaging problem

Dec 10, 2025

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6 min read

You don't have a messaging problem

You have a narrative problem. Here's a framework to fix it.

Ronell Smith
Ronell Smith

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