Editorial · The Post-Project World

The Coordination Tax: Where Does Your Budget Actually Go?

15 December 2025 · 00:11:58

Welcome to The Post-Project World. In this opening episode, I share a disturbing discovery from a five million dollar treasury transformation programme: twenty-eight percent of the budget went to coordination overhead, not value creation. I introduce the Four M Framework—Meetings, Messages, Management, and Movement—and break down exactly how organisations hemorrhage resources on the friction of humans coordinating with other humans. You'll learn why the coordination tax scales faster than your organisation, why large companies feel so slow, and what a typical day looks like today versus what it could look like tomorrow when machines handle coordination. This isn't about eliminating human contribution. It's about redirecting it to work that actually matters. Visit OrbaOS.com to calculate your own coordination tax.

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