<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Meja Vu LLC]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stabilizing your operating rhythm is the catalyst your human systems need to bridge the gap between intent and transformation.]]></description><link>https://www.meja-vu.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:35:50 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.meja-vu.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Stop Hand-Holding: Revive Critical Thinking]]></title><description><![CDATA[When's the last time you got good reasoning? Frustrated because it feels like you’re going in circles? So what’s broken? When you look past all the chaos, a key root cause is a lack of critical thinking. Check out this manager's cheat sheet to get a conversation started.]]></description><link>https://www.meja-vu.com/post/stop-hand-holding-revive-critical-thinking</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a480162fa58f0a255cf59d1</guid><category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category><category><![CDATA[Downloads]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bdcd22_af31f519c4f74c3c8df8e9c7c0a60328~mv2.gif/v1/fit/w_819,h_432,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Melody Hazen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Your "Delegation" Culture Killing Accountability?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Think you've got a delegation problem? It might actually be an accountability vacuum. Delegation is a tool—it moves tasks. Accountability is a culture—it moves outcomes. Here are 5 tells your org is stuck in "delegation mode" and it's creating drag.]]></description><link>https://www.meja-vu.com/post/is-your-delegation-culture-killing-accountability</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a46f949316fbd62aff84fd5</guid><category><![CDATA[Operating Model]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bdcd22_2c276228245141a3a5451d24538680d5~mv2.gif/v1/fit/w_1000,h_756,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Melody Hazen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The KPI Trap—Do Yours Enable Decisions? ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The question worth asking: Is your portfolio review enabling decisions or just confirming what everyone already knew?]]></description><link>https://www.meja-vu.com/post/the-kpi-trap</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a445c5c51416e35e787651b</guid><category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category><category><![CDATA[Operating Model]]></category><category><![CDATA[Downloads]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:28:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bdcd22_5bc80f5bff954e249820ead5b4a8481c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Melody Hazen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the Impact of Your Pre-Execution Lag?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The obstacle to realizing more value out of your portfolio may be in upstream bottlenecks and not just downstream execution. Like how long it takes to get an initiative resourced, scoped, and approved. he pre-execution work is crucial to optimizing the efficiency and value of your portfolio. A bad portfolio backlog takes a toll, costing your resources time and money.]]></description><link>https://www.meja-vu.com/post/what-s-the-impact-of-your-pre-execution-lag</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a4843d0fa58f0a255cff316</guid><category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category><category><![CDATA[Operating Model]]></category><category><![CDATA[Transformation]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bdcd22_e6d9f1c768024628be0b8c9e0e7bc7d4~mv2.gif/v1/fit/w_582,h_326,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Melody Hazen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Don't Have a Hero Problem. You Have a System That Needs One.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The real heroes in your org aren't who you think. Do you have a Corporate Munchausen Syndrome problem? You know, that pattern where an org unconsciously rewards rescue over prevention. It isn't something you talk about every day, but I bet you feel it.]]></description><link>https://www.meja-vu.com/post/you-don-t-have-a-hero-problem-you-have-a-system-that-needs-one</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a43093751416e35e7845e40</guid><category><![CDATA[Operating Model]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 04:58:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bdcd22_d129a52897064d169c55d375b9fcc3f3~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_644,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Melody Hazen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AI Context Problem]]></title><description><![CDATA[You can't engineer context, you never made explicit. Yes, context engineering has an assumption problem. The framework is sound, but if you want AI to perform reliably inside your org, you have to design the information environment it operates in—what it knows, what it doesn't, how it learns. But that only works if your org already knows what it knows and why. Most don't. Not in a documented, transferable form. What most orgs actually run on is judgment and institutional memory.]]></description><link>https://www.meja-vu.com/post/the-ai-context-problem</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a483edff7b480551f0db695</guid><category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category><category><![CDATA[Transformation]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bdcd22_855d453d271d467a976ea6815fcf7382~mv2.gif/v1/fit/w_874,h_490,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Melody Hazen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI's Decision Rights Crisis]]></title><description><![CDATA[Context engineering is an IT problem. Technical teams are solving for it. But there's a harder problem sitting one layer up that gets glossed over: Who has the authority to decide what your AI should know? And who is accountable when that turns out to be wrong? That's not an IT question. That's a decision rights question. Context governance is an organizational design problem. ]]></description><link>https://www.meja-vu.com/post/ai-s-decision-rights-crisis</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a483ae9f7b480551f0dad51</guid><category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category><category><![CDATA[Transformation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Operating Model]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bdcd22_ce1a1f1a0cdb4e668070a66d80c5bbe1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_642,h_245,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Melody Hazen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Gap You Didn't See Coming]]></title><description><![CDATA[Something I learned working across UK/US programs is that most people get focused on the differences in communication styles. Direct vs. indirect. High-context vs. low-context. Sure, that is important.



But I've found sometimes the real snag isn't communication as both sides are using the same words—governance, escalation, accountability. The disconnect is that they're operating from different structural logic underneath.]]></description><link>https://www.meja-vu.com/post/the-gap-you-didn-t-see-coming</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a4828b9f7b480551f0d8378</guid><category><![CDATA[Operating Model]]></category><category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bdcd22_f91597516a2543c6930cf9207ded055e~mv2.gif/v1/fit/w_874,h_490,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Melody Hazen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Invisible Art of Translation]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a world where AI is making it faster and easier to produce more polished information dumps, the human skill of turning organizational complexity into a narrative that moves people to action is becoming rarer, not more common.



That's strategic translation. One of the most critical skills you need on the team, but often the hardest to find.  Check out this guide and I'll break it down.]]></description><link>https://www.meja-vu.com/post/the-invisible-art-of-translation</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a484904fa58f0a255cffe5d</guid><category><![CDATA[Operating Model]]></category><category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category><category><![CDATA[Downloads]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bdcd22_ce4a6d3534c54beb99afd445e9483300~mv2.gif/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Melody Hazen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Operating Rhythm IS the Strategy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Don't let everyone blame the  strategy. Your operating rhythm IS the strategy and when you get that right, everything else gets easier.]]></description><link>https://www.meja-vu.com/post/your-operating-rhythm-is-the-strategy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a4483f369b2dfbbf12d2f61</guid><category><![CDATA[Operating Model]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category><category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 03:17:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bdcd22_301b4c6d8cff4fc4a2f69fe3cc8a60bd~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_627,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Melody Hazen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Decision Rights Need Guardrails]]></title><description><![CDATA[When operating models are built for execution, roles are scoped around deliverables, not decisions. That means teams are navigating a lot of ambiguity. And when decision rights are ambiguous, the rational move is to escalate to leadership because the system hasn't defined where the decision lives. If you want your teams to be more proactive, exercise better judgment, and bring you framed choices instead of raw issues, decision guardrails matter. This usually gets diagnosed as a leadership...]]></description><link>https://www.meja-vu.com/post/decision-rights-need-guardrails</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a484a53fa58f0a255d00196</guid><category><![CDATA[Operating Model]]></category><category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category><category><![CDATA[Downloads]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bdcd22_83f59fae8ff34fe9b8e2d281cd3c222c~mv2.gif/v1/fit/w_1000,h_426,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Melody Hazen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Build for Judgment, Not Just Execution]]></title><description><![CDATA[Understanding why your people bring issues instead of options is an important step. People bring forward issues as they experience it—immediate and urgent. They do it because somewhere in the system they learned it is safer, expected, necessary, or it is the only path that works. If you want to break the cycle, start shifting your team from escalations to ownership.]]></description><link>https://www.meja-vu.com/post/build-for-judgment-not-just-execution</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a4824880e6d46569496210b</guid><category><![CDATA[Operating Model]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bdcd22_5116ed13d54646ffb81d7f82b94939f0~mv2.gif/v1/fit/w_979,h_653,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Melody Hazen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prioritization Is A Team Skill]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prioritization is a team skill, not just a leadership responsibility. Check out this guide on how to build better judgment below leadership.]]></description><link>https://www.meja-vu.com/post/prioritization-is-a-team-skill</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a484b22fa58f0a255d0037a</guid><category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category><category><![CDATA[Operating Model]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category><category><![CDATA[Downloads]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bdcd22_c59f1ddcd6984bd3a3fde6e73dbd8275~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Melody Hazen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're Doin' Great]]></title><description><![CDATA[Movie Quote: "The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool." Philip Seymour Hoffman, ALMOST FAMOUS]]></description><link>https://www.meja-vu.com/post/you-re-doin-great</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a4487923c06bdad542b0c4b</guid><category><![CDATA[Fika]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:28:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bdcd22_12ee3e63e9d04d39ae7d02e7eb590962~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_600,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Melody Hazen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Alignment Muzzling Clarity?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Everyone (myself included) loves to preach "strategic alignment." But the real work happens in the gray - the messy middle where priorities collide and smart people see different risks. They discuss, debate and, dare I say, even argue.  That's not dysfunction. That's where clarity is born.]]></description><link>https://www.meja-vu.com/post/is-alignment-muzzling-clarity</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a47f20f0e6d46569495b158</guid><category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category><category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bdcd22_a103ad7a9a324e97bf7eb48eb4d5ec49~mv2.gif/v1/fit/w_750,h_421,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Melody Hazen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sensemaking Is The New Bottleneck]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the most disruptive failure patterns I see: we’ve normalized low accountability for sensemaking. People attend, skim, and react but don’t ingest, synthesize, or come prepared to debate tradeoffs. ]]></description><link>https://www.meja-vu.com/post/sensemaking-is-the-new-bottleneck</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a46ec58950901ce7a6c4196</guid><category><![CDATA[Operating Model]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category><category><![CDATA[Downloads]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bdcd22_652ee507e67547adb6d280c496fde1ea~mv2.gif/v1/fit/w_1000,h_587,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Melody Hazen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strategy Without Consequences]]></title><description><![CDATA[Strategy teams are often brought in to advise. What’s harder is staying attached once the decision is made. When accountability moves elsewhere, strategy quietly loses authority. Let's look at that handoff and why strategy only earns influence when it carries consequences.]]></description><link>https://www.meja-vu.com/post/strategy-without-consequences</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a46bf26258f25aaabaeb727</guid><category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category><category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category><category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Operating Model]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bdcd22_1ef19ea357494c23a9cce1cff368d604~mv2.gif/v1/fit/w_1000,h_653,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Melody Hazen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cost of Consensus]]></title><description><![CDATA[Consensus is supposed to help decisions move. Sometimes it does. Other times, it becomes the thing that slows everything down. No one is saying no. No one is blocking progress. But nothing really moves.]]></description><link>https://www.meja-vu.com/post/the-consensus-trap</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a46bc53316fbd62aff7c982</guid><category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category><category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Operating Model]]></category><category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bdcd22_ca81813e49104d629d33b1b0d2dc3eb2~mv2.gif/v1/fit/w_1000,h_653,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Melody Hazen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Hidden Legal Risks of AI Efficiency]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every AI productivity gain leaves a paper trail. AI efficiency tools don’t just automate work—they change what becomes a business record. 
Meeting summaries, action tracking, and workflow logs turn informal moments into durable artifacts. Every efficiency gain carries an unfunded change management bill.]]></description><link>https://www.meja-vu.com/post/the-hidden-legal-risks-of-ai-efficiency</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a46ca7a316fbd62aff7e836</guid><category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category><category><![CDATA[Transformation]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bdcd22_b50dd9722e7e46939e31c66afc3d0c55~mv2.gif/v1/fit/w_875,h_583,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Melody Hazen</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Strategy Loses Authority]]></title><description><![CDATA[We talk endlessly about alignment and communication. What we need to talk about is what happens after decisions are made. After alignment fades and execution begins, priorities erode—through exceptions, revisits, and “reasonable” workarounds.]]></description><link>https://www.meja-vu.com/post/how-strategy-loses-authority</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a46b79f258f25aaabaea529</guid><category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Operating Model]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bdcd22_61a1a156ec1a4f82a78181db0d7ef709~mv2.gif/v1/fit/w_1000,h_653,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Melody Hazen</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>