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Roger Sartain

Roger Sartain is a senior executive, strategist, and contributor at Mindset with degrees in Electrical Engineering and Business Administration. He writes about leadership, organizational design, and the operational decisions that determine whether teams and businesses scale or stall.
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Roger Sartain

The average employee now uses 11 different software tools per day and switches between them 1,100 times

Research from Harvard and Qatalog shows tool sprawl is the hidden productivity…

MIT found that 95% of enterprise AI projects deliver zero ROI and the problem is not the technology

MIT's 2026 study shows 95% of AI deployments fail to generate returns.…

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi interviewed 91 creative professionals and found they all described the same mental state when doing their best work

Csikszentmihalyi's flow research identified the exact conditions that produce peak performance: clear…

Amy Edmondson studied 51 hospital teams and the ones that reported more errors actually had better patient outcomes

Edmondson's psychological safety research at Harvard found that better teams report more…

Gartner predicts that by 2028 one in four enterprise software purchases will be made by AI agents with no human in the loop

Agentic AI is about to change procurement, vendor relationships, and how software…

Ed Catmull ran Pixar for 30 years and said the key to creative teams is making it safe to show ugly work early

Catmull's Braintrust model required directors to show rough cuts to peers for…