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You Did Not Build a Scalable Organization. You Built a Bigger One.
Why most leaders confuse capacity with scale, and why AI is exposing the difference.
9 hrs ago
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Dr. Melik Peter Khoury
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Project Hail Mary
I went in expecting a space movie. I came out thinking about org charts.
Jul 17
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Dr. Melik Peter Khoury
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The Trustees Your Institution Cannot Afford
A board seat is the cheapest thing an institution gives away and the most expensive thing it can get wrong.
Jul 15
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Dr. Melik Peter Khoury
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Stop Calling It Broken. You Were Hired to Build It.
We are living through a shift that most job descriptions have not caught up to yet.
Jul 7
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Dr. Melik Peter Khoury
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What a Private University System Actually Requires
The architecture behind a private system nobody has actually finished building yet.
Jul 1
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Dr. Melik Peter Khoury
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June 2026
Did Meta Just Make a Decade of Marketing Craft Obsolete?
Nobody on your team failed. The ground moved, the old craft turned into friction, and demanding more of it only deepens the hole.
Jun 22
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Dr. Melik Peter Khoury
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We Got Lazy, and Google Noticed
Google does not care about your mission, and that turned out to be the most useful thing about it.
Jun 20
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Dr. Melik Peter Khoury
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The Weight We Carry
The one who understands you completely is the one hoping you break first. You hold the gaze anyway. I learned that young, between the goalposts, the way…
Jun 18
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Dr. Melik Peter Khoury
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Other People’s Money
Loving a thing has never once stopped it from dying
Jun 17
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Dr. Melik Peter Khoury
The Bottleneck Was Never the Ideas
AI See What you Did There
Jun 11
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Dr. Melik Peter Khoury
The Comfortable Lie of Board Governance
Built for Harvard. Fatal for Most of Us & Why higher education's traditional board governance model is destroying the institutions it was designed to…
Jun 9
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Dr. Melik Peter Khoury
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May 2026
The Lie at the Center of Higher Education
What Thirty Years Inside the Academy Forced Me to Admit
May 28
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Dr. Melik Peter Khoury
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