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Practical essays for owners of growing companies — on delegation, decisions, people and the structure underneath them.

The Planets IX blog is written for founders and owners of 10–200 person companies in India. Each article takes one real situation — delegation that comes back, a manager who will not decide, a family handover that has not moved, a good employee leaving — and explains what is happening underneath it, with worked examples and references.

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Strategy

When the Strategy Room Is Too Safe

A strategy room where no one challenges the plan is not producing strategy. It is producing confirmation of what has already been decided.

June 11, 20265 min read

Talent

The Cost of Promotions That Shouldn't Happen

A promotion given to the wrong person for the wrong reasons costs the organisation far more than the decision was understood to cost at the time it was made.

June 11, 20265 min read

Leadership

The Predecessor Who Is Still Present

The leader who left took the role. Their influence — in norms, in stories, in the people they shaped — is often still running the organisation.

June 11, 20265 min read

People

People Who Perform Alignment

Agreement in the room and commitment in the work are different things. Organisations that cannot tell them apart are always surprised by execution failures.

June 11, 20265 min read

Leadership

The Leader Who Never Has Enough Data

More data is not always more clarity. Sometimes the request for more data is a request for permission to delay the decision.

June 11, 20265 min read

Culture

Accountability Without Blame

Blame ends the conversation where accountability begins it. One assigns fault. The other creates the conditions for change.

June 11, 20265 min read

Leadership

Why Smart People Give Bad Advice

Intelligence without context is pattern-matching against the wrong template. The confident advice is often the most dangerous kind.

June 11, 20265 min read

Capital

The Capital That Disappears in Translation

Capital is raised with a plan. It is spent against a reality that the plan did not anticipate. The gap between the two is where value goes.

June 11, 20265 min read

Operations

When the Org Chart Hides the Problem

Structural solutions to people problems rarely work. The chart changes. The problem stays.

June 11, 20265 min read