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Every quarter, you live with the same fear.

The boardroom closes, the numbers are reviewed, and all eyes turn to you. You’ve defended the strategy. You’ve signed off on the budgets. You’ve greenlit the initiatives. And yet, the results on the page don’t match the billions invested.

You don’t get to blame the PMO. You don’t get to point to IT. You don’t get to hide behind “transformation takes time.” You’re the one accountable. And you know it — because when the initiatives fail, it’s your name on the line, not theirs.

This is the unspoken tax of executive leadership: most of the work you fund fails.

• 70% of projects never deliver the outcomes they promised.
• 88% of business transformations collapse before they achieve results.
• Studies show 23% to 95% of time is wasted on rework, bureaucracy, firefighting, or activity with no measurable return.

Every executive knows these numbers, but here’s the painful truth: we keep funding the same broken system anyway.

Why? Because failure is camouflaged. It looks like busyness. It looks like progress. It looks like Gantt charts, status reports, town hall slogans, and digital dashboards. But it’s theater, not growth. And when the curtain drops, you’re the one left defending it to investors, boards, and employees.

That’s why this book exists.

Stop Funding Failure is not another strategy deck or innovation playbook. It’s a survival guide for executives who want to stop defending failure and start funding results.

It gives you a simple, proven 3-Step Work Rationalization System that ensures every dollar you allocate is tied to measurable growth.

1. Clarify the Vision — Demand crystal clarity on how every initiative improves customer satisfaction, team member satisfaction, or profitability. No clarity, no funding.
2. Rationalize the Work — Kill lazy thinking, eliminate shallow fixes, and force every proposal through discipline before it touches your budget.
3. Align & Execute Through Systems — Install simple operating systems (DRIVE, 1-3-1, Challenge | Opportunity) that guarantee adoption and eliminate waste.

The use cases in these pages come from IT, HR, and PMOs because those are the most common culprits executives get forced to defend. But make no mistake: this book is not about IT or the PMO. It’s about you — the leaders who hold the pen that funds failure or fuels growth.

Because here’s the real choice every CFO, COO, and CEO faces:

• Keep funding theater, watch your credibility erode, and live quarter to quarter in fear of being fired.
• Or install the discipline to stop funding failure, and turn your organization into a growth engine that investors, boards, and teams trust.

If you’re tired of the failure tax… if you’re done defending theater… if you’re ready to guarantee outcomes instead of excuses — this book will show you how.