The 30/90/180 Pattern

Access does not collapse. It erodes on a schedule.

Collapse appears sudden. Development is gradual. The gap between those two sentences is where most senior careers quietly lose their footing.

When a capable leader’s judgment finally fails in a way the system can see, the failure looks like an event. A bad call. A misread. A quarter that went wrong. Treated as an event, it gets an event’s response: a cor…