What Withdrawal Can Reveal About Organisational Reality
When capable people withdraw, go quiet, or leave, the issue is not always personal weakness. Sometimes withdrawal reveals something important about lived organisational reality.
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Why formal governance rarely captures lived organisational reality
Formal governance is necessary. Structures, policies, reporting lines, responsibilities, controls, and formal processes all matter. Without them, organisations lose clarity, accountability, and continuity. But formal governance does not tell the whole story. In practice, organisations are not lived primarily through documents. They are lived through behaviour: through what people actually do, avoid, tolerate, distort, escalate,…