Volume 3 · The Corner Cabin · Essay 190

PMF Model Funnel

Think of PMF Model Funnel as a school atlas: simplified, slightly wrong, and the reason you found your way at all.

The model's real service is conversation. It gives a group of people the same picture to point at. Half of management is just getting everyone to look at the same wall.

What this concept offers is a pause — one extra beat between what happens and what you do about it. Civilisation, someone said, is measured in that beat.

Watch a good tailor in a busy lane. He does not measure twice out of fear; he measures twice out of respect for the cloth. Teams led with that spirit rarely need scolding.

An organisation is only a group of people who have agreed, for now, to pull in roughly the same direction. One page cannot change a life. But one recognised pattern can change a Tuesday, and lives are made of Tuesdays.