🕯️ Advent of Insight · Day 13 – When Best Practices Fail
Copying success rarely recreates it—context is the missing variable.
Copying success rarely recreates it—context is the missing variable.
Listening isn’t waiting to talk—it’s shaping reality through attention.
Sustainable change begins in moments, not milestones.
Alignment needs guardrails—but too many turn roads into walls.
Behind every org chart lies a living network of shadow structures—the informal channels of influence, trust, and flow.Ignoring them means designing for theory, not reality. Great leaders learn to see and honor these hidden systems without trying to “fix” them.When you align formal design with informal truth, energy stops leaking and purpose becomes collective. → Related: Shadow Structures: The Unofficial Systems That Actually Run Your Organisation