March 2026
Industrial Trap Madness
16 Complexity Traps. 15 debates. You decide which industrial mindset pattern is most destructive to customer relationships.
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How It Works
16 traps from the industrial-age business playbook go head-to-head in a single-elimination bracket. Each day, Chris Carolan and Joshua Oakes debate both sides of a matchup — arguing why each trap is more destructive to customer relationships — without declaring a winner.
You decide. Watch the debate, then vote for the trap you think causes more damage. The winner advances. The loser gets eliminated. By the championship, the audience will have named the single most destructive pattern in industrial-age business thinking.
The 12 canonical Complexity Traps are joined by 4 traps discovered through real client engagements: the Budget Trap, Time Trap, Integration Trap, and Process Trap.