🕯️ Advent of Insight · A 24-Day Journey into Clarity
A reflective wrap-up of Advent of Insight 2025 — 24 daily insights on clarity, leadership, systems, change, and the human signal in an increasingly noisy world.
Tag: systems-thinking
🕯️ Advent of Insight · Day 21 – Alignment Over Agreement
Shared direction matters more than shared opinions.
🕯️ Advent of Insight · Day 18 – The Illusion of Control
The tighter we hold systems, the less they can breathe and adapt.
🕯️ Advent of Insight · Week 2 Recap
A reflective summary of Advent of Insight Week 2 — seven insights on teams, autonomy, governance, conflict, and the human systems that shape how organizations work.
🕯️ Advent of Insight · Day 9 – Shadow Structures
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