The Thinking Underneath
Here you'll find ideas, observations, and theories on organisational dissonance — the gap between what organisations say they value and what they actually reward.
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What Survives the Chrysalis
Inside a chrysalis, a caterpillar is broken down and rebuilt so thoroughly that people long assumed nothing could survive. This essay asks what organisations carry through their own transformations, and why the same things keep turning up after every restructure.
The stubborn promise running my life
We’d already been taught exactly how this happens. Knowing wasn’t the same as having learned it. Somewhere in the middle of understanding that harm was not one big thing but a lot of little things accumulating over time, I made myself a promise: I will not be one of the ones who let it happen.