The same three show up whether it's a two-hundred-person church or a division of a Fortune 500. The building changes. The pattern doesn't. Each one is written up in full on Substack.
Trust doesn't break all at once. It goes quietly, in an order, and by the time you notice, someone's already halfway out the door or a decision's being worked around. It began somewhere earlier and quieter than the moment you finally saw it.
Read the full piece on Substack →You cast the vision more than once and gave it everything. For a few weeks it looked like it might take, and then it didn't. What looks like sabotage from your chair usually looks like something else from theirs, and seeing that is the first thing that moves it.
Read the full piece on Substack →It all runs through you now, picked up one piece at a time, until you can't set it down. You're honestly not sure anyone else could carry it, and the usual advice to delegate slides right off. The way out is slower and more human than a new system.
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