Lindner and PMI AI & Project Management Summit · Lindner Hall, University of Cincinnati
Crossing the Knowing-Doing Gap
You already know what to do. The question is what you’re going to build so you finally do it.
Parker Sloan speaks in the Industry Partner track on November 14, 2026, from 11:30 am to 12:15 pm. The slides, the talk as the room saw it, and what the room said will be here after the session.
If you’re in Lindner Hall that day, keep this page. The poll runs here.
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One question first
What’s one thing you already know you should be doing at work or school, and haven’t done yet?
Sent. Keep this page open, there’s a second question later.
Same page, new question
When _____, I will _____.
Sent. That’s your experiment for the week. The next step is on screen.
The talk
Watch it the way the room saw it.
Twenty-one screens, clicked through. A laptop in fullscreen is best. Press F for fullscreen and Escape to leave. The poll answers in it are the room’s own.
The four moves
- Nº 01
Sharpen it.
From “network more” to the sentence that’s actually true about last week.
Insight · now
- Nº 02
Shrink it. Anchor it.
The smallest act you could do this week, tied to a moment that already happens. When this happens, I will do that.
Structure · now
- Nº 03
Give it someone who asks.
Someone, or something. It doesn’t have to be smart. It has to remember what you said, and ask.
Accountability · now
- Nº 04
Run it. Report it.
A week of doing, then one honest answer. Did the moment come up, did you do it, was it at the moment.
Measurement · this week
What the room said
What you knew. What you’ll do.
Sent from this page during the talk, with no names attached.
Before: what you already knew
After: what you’ll do this week
Move four · Run it. Report it.
I’ll hold the other end.
Leave your experiment and your email. A week after the talk, on November 21, I’ll write back and ask three things: did the moment come up, did you do it, was it at the moment. I read every one myself. One email back, and that’s all. No list, no newsletter.
Got it. You’ll hear from me on November 21.
Where to go next
Free first. Then more, if you want it.
Everything here is free. None of it needs an account, and the results belong to you.
- Nº 01
The Translation Gap
Seventeen items on how you talk to people who think differently. Ten minutes.
- Nº 02
Field Guide Nº 04, The Missing Half
A working board for your own forty, in about thirty minutes. Ten pages.
- Nº 03
- Nº 04
The essays
The Architecture of Transformation, on the gap between knowing and doing, as it gets written.
A bigger challenge than one behavior?
Bring Your Challenge is a professional certificate with NKU’s Haile College of Business, coming early 2027, for experienced leaders. Your challenge is where the workshop starts. You work it through alongside peers, with your own AI as a thought partner, and leave with progress on it and a way of working you can run on the next one.
Want to work on yours with me? For you, or someone starting out → The Mirror Series, coaching in sprints, and Personal OS, with the prices on the page.
Sources
Where this comes from.
Pfeffer, J., & Sutton, R. I. (2000). The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action. Harvard Business School Press.
Gollwitzer, P. M., & Sheeran, P. (2006). Implementation intentions and goal achievement: A meta-analysis of effects and processes. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 69-119.
Harkin, B., Webb, T. L., Chang, B. P. I., Prestwich, A., Conner, M., Kellar, I., Benn, Y., & Sheeran, P. (2016). Does monitoring goal progress promote goal attainment? A meta-analysis of the experimental evidence. Psychological Bulletin, 142(2), 198-229.
Sloan, P. (2026). Essays in The Architecture of Transformation. sloanpk.substack.com