See more clearly
Examine what is present before deciding what it means.
A FORTHCOMING BOOK BY DAWNE SCHOENTHALWhy recurring problems exist
InCongruent
Why recurring problems exist
and what to do about them.
A book for leaders who want to understand why considerable attention and thoughtful effort can still produce familiar results.
Join the book list →THE PREMISE
Look beneath the presenting problem.
Recurring problems provide a visible signal. InCongruent follows the conditions, assumptions, decisions, and systems beneath that recurrence to examine how capable organizations can continue producing familiar results.
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WHAT READERS WILL EXPLORESee the pattern.
See the pattern.
Understand the system.
Connect what matters
Bring intention, conditions, choices, and evidence into relation.
Choose what comes next
Move from familiar reaction toward disciplined inquiry.
INSIDE THE BOOK
A disciplined inquiry into recurring work.
InCongruent follows recurrence into the larger system around it: how intentions meet conditions, how decisions accumulate, how familiar patterns persist, and how disciplined inquiry creates a clearer basis for what follows.
Explore the IC Method™ →The case for congruence
Why capable organizations can invest intelligently and still fall short of what they intended.
The patterns beneath recurrence
How expectations, conditions, decisions, and systems can keep producing familiar results.
The IC Method™
A five-question discipline for creating a clearer basis for what comes next.
From insight to movement
How organizations can connect intention to an accessible action and meaningful evidence.
WHY THIS MATTERS
Organizations deserve a clearer basis for what comes next.
Recurring problems consume more than money. They draw on attention, capacity, credibility, and people’s willingness to participate in change. The book begins with recurrence, while the underlying discipline can travel into strategy, design, launches, and the decisions surrounding them.
“Greater clarity at the beginning creates a stronger basis for every decision that follows.”
A NOTE FROM DAWNE
The perspective behind the book.
I am writing InCongruent for leaders who recognize the cost of returning to the same work without a clearer understanding of what continues to shape it. The book brings together years of work where organizational intent meets operational reality.
FOUNDER, INCONGRUENCE LLC · CREATOR, THE IC METHOD™CONTRIBUTE TO THE CONVERSATION
Have you encountered a problem that kept returning?
As InCongruent develops, Dawne is speaking with leaders, practitioners, and others who have seen recurring organizational problems up close. These conversations may inform the book through lived experience, anonymized anecdotes, case material, or questions worthy of deeper examination.
Your first message simply opens a conversation. Participation may take the form of an informal discussion or an interview, depending on relevance and comfort. Nothing will be quoted, attributed, or published without your knowledge and explicit permission.
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