Tag: organizational transformation

  • The Clocks That Didn’t Ask

    Somewhere in open Atlantic between Cádiz and Porto, I missed the notice that ship’s clocks were moving forward an hour. I came up for breakfast sure it was 8:00. The dining room was already thinning out — the crew had known since midnight; my watch hadn’t. Nobody had done anything wrong. The ship’s systems had… Read More

    The Clocks That Didn’t Ask
  • The Bow Wave

    Four birds off the bow of a ship, wings dead still, riding the lift the hull was already pushing into the air. It’s a picture of something most change leaders get backwards: mastery isn’t more effort, it’s finding the current that’s already there and making tiny corrections to stay in it. Read More

    The Bow Wave
  • The Perimeter Tour

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    In Cádiz, the hop-on-hop-off bus never actually enters the old town — the streets are too narrow, built for feet, not vehicles. So the bus circles the perimeter while everything worth seeing sits untouched in the middle. It’s a full afternoon, a full loop, and a total miss. Organizations run the same tour: the dashboard,… Read More

    The Perimeter Tour