Most books prescribe antidotes.
This one provides the diagnosis.

I Think, Therefore I Know

Scientific Thinking for Unscientific Organizations

Companies spend billions installing frameworks into operating systems that were never designed to run them. The language changes. The behavior doesn’t.

Ever been told to be “data driven?”
for a decision already made.

Sat in a meeting about having too many meetings?
and scheduled another.

Been given a strategy that can’t fail?
because no one defined success.

Those aren’t bugs. They’re features of a system doing exactly what it was designed to do.

I Think, Therefore I Know isn’t another playbook. It diagnoses why organizations resist the changes they claim to want—and what’s actually required to stop repeating the cycle.

This isn’t a book about bad organizations. It’s about ordinary ones.

About Brad

Brad Nelson is the author of I Think, Therefore I Know: Scientific Thinking for Unscientific Organizations and co-host of The Agile For Agilists podcast. He’s spent his career across lean manufacturing, software development, and organizational change—from running assembly lines in West Michigan to consulting for Fortune 500 technology companies. He currently resides in Metro Detroit.

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