Tag: Organizational Change
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The Ambient Adjustment
By the third morning on board, I’d stopped checking my watch for meal times and started listening for the ship instead. Nobody trained me to do this — the environment just repeated itself until my behaviour rearranged around it. Formal night, a delayed port call, a shifted schedule — I adjusted to all of it… Read More
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The Unheld Ground
A retired Marine turned cybersecurity specialist told me something that has nothing to do with networks and everything to do with leadership: the job isn’t finished when the fix goes in — that’s when the real work starts. Most organizations plan for taking the hill. Almost none plan for holding it. The Unheld Ground is… Read More
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The Visible Anchor
We were lost in Cádiz — or thought we were. The city’s old town curls and doubles back with no straight lines to follow, but our ship, 16 stories of white hull and the tallest thing in town, was visible from almost anywhere. We hadn’t been lost. We’d just forgotten to look up. That’s the… Read More
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The Transformation Tax Nobody Named
I was helping a friend pack up her mother’s house last month. Most boxes went fast — books, dishes, old furniture, labeled and taped in minutes. Then we got to a small box of kitchen utensils. Nothing valuable. Her mother picked up one spoon, turned it over, and didn’t put it in the box. “This… Read More
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