Is Your System Breaking Down? 
5 Signals You Can't Afford to Miss
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EPISODE · Apr 21, 2026 · 18 MIN

Is Your System Breaking Down? 5 Signals You Can't Afford to Miss

from Extropy on AIR: Finance Transformation, AP Automation & AI in Finance · host Extropy Advisors

Most organizations don't know their systems are failing until something very visible and very costly goes wrong. In this episode of Extropy On AIr, Kevin Zirkle and Mike Jasper break down the five telltale signals of organizational entropy: exception dependency, shadow systems, decision escalation, metric conflict, and hero dependency.The uncomfortable truth? These don't look like problems. They look like people doing their jobs. That's exactly what makes them so dangerous.If you're a leader trying to get ahead of dysfunction before it becomes a crisis, this episode gives you a practical lens for seeing what's hiding in plain sight, and a simple place to start this week.

Most organizations don't know their systems are failing until something very visible and very costly goes wrong. In this episode of Extropy On AIr, Kevin Zirkle and Mike Jasper break down the five telltale signals of organizational entropy: exception dependency, shadow systems, decision escalation, metric conflict, and hero dependency.The uncomfortable truth? These don't look like problems. They look like people doing their jobs. That's exactly what makes them so dangerous.If you're a leader trying to get ahead of dysfunction before it becomes a crisis, this episode gives you a practical lens for seeing what's hiding in plain sight, and a simple place to start this week.

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