Root Cause

The Unforgiving Discipline of Finding the Real Problem

By Garrett Lowe

Every team has a version of the same story: the quarterly postmortem, the confident action items, and the same problem showing up again in six months wearing a different hat. Root Cause is about the discipline most leaders know they need and almost nobody actually practices — finding the real problem before jumping to the fix. It's a fast, direct read about why organizations default to surface-level answers, what it costs them, and what it takes to build a culture that keeps digging when everyone else wants to move on.


About the Author

Garrett Lowe

Garrett Lowe

Garrett Lowe writes about the gap between what organizations think went wrong and what actually went wrong — and he doesn't stop at the org chart. His books pull threads from warehouse floors to military history to the way a great restaurant handles a bad night. They're for people who'd rather understand the real problem than apply the popular fix.