10/21/2026
There's a certain kind of company where every minor challenge becomes an opportunity for an extensive, labyrinthine analysis session. Whiteboards come out. Flowcharts get drawn. Corporate jargon gets deployed with real confidence. And somehow, despite all the meetings, very little actually moves.
That's the trap of scaling with Problem Talkers — people who are brilliant at describing the problem, dissecting the problem, presenting the problem in three different colors of marker, but strangely allergic to fixing it. Problem Solvers are the opposite: less flashy, occasionally disruptive, but reliably the ones who ship the fix while everyone else is still calibrating the meeting agenda.
As a company grows, this ratio matters more, not less. A small team can survive a few Talkers. A scaling team gets quietly strangled by them — more meetings, more decks, less actually shipped.
Which one are you honestly being on your team this week?
Full breakdown: jsmorlu.com/ceo-corner/corporate-safari-talkers
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