Articles
Cameron Johnson
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Three Days at Gettysburg: A Reasoned Leadership Analysis Part 6
The frameworks do not make the leaders of 1863 look smaller. If anything, they make the tragedy larger. Lee was a genuinely exceptional military mind operating…
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Three Days at Gettysburg: A Reasoned Leadership Analysis Part 5
Three Decisions, One Afternoon: Sickles, Hood, and Chamberlain The afternoon of July 2, 1863, compressed more consequential leadership decisions into a shorter window of time than…
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Three Days at Gettysburg: A Reasoned Leadership Analysis Part 4
He argued that the Army of Northern Virginia should disengage from Gettysburg, swing south and east around the Union left flank, position itself between Meade’s army…
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Three Days at Gettysburg: A Reasoned Leadership Analysis Part 3
The Einstein Effect operates in both directions inside hierarchical organizations. At the top, it produces a leader who over-trusts their own judgment because everyone around them…
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Three Days at Gettysburg: A Reasoned Leadership Analysis Part 2
The “if practicable” order is, through the Epistemic Rigidity lens, a product of the Einstein Effect working on Lee himself. Lee had built a command culture…
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Three Days at Gettysburg: A Reasoned Leadership Analysis Part 1
Lee’s decision to invade the North in the summer of 1863 was a product of that abundance, and it is where the Epistemic Rigidity begins to…
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Waiting for the Puck
You’re good at your job. That’s not flattery, that’s just the setup. You’ve built something real. You deliver. Your manager/boss/leader trusts you. Your team follows you.…
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Brilliance Isn’t Immunity: Napoleon, Pressure, and Epistemic Rigidity
The fog at Austerlitz did not just cover the fields. It covered certainty. In the cold hours before dawn on December 2, 1805, Napoleon stood with…
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Shackleton and the Adversity Nexus: Leadership When Control Disappears
Most leadership frameworks are built for stability. They assume: But real leadership rarely happens there. It emerges at the moment when plans collapse, certainty evaporates, and…
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Del Toro’s Frankenstein: A Leadership Case Study in Vision, Responsibility, and Repair
Guillermo del Toro’s 2025 adaptation of Frankenstein reimagines Mary Shelley’s classic as a deeply emotional story about creation, consequence, and the long shadow of fathers and…
