Sense the Signals
ATTEND The most important early warnings are often the quiet ones Employees sense being unseen long before an indication starts to emerge. This quiet tension rarely appears in organizational reports and almost never finds its way into performance metrics dashboards. This is a gradual process, not a dramatic one. The sensation arises when what people notice in the organization, what they personally care about, and what they are experiencing on a daily basis has nowhere meaningful to touch down.
Many of us have felt this sensation:
Sensing a customer’s needs shifting before the numbers change Feeling tension in a team long before conflict becomes visible Glimpsing possibilities that cannot yet be fully formed Carrying concerns that are hard to explain yet impossible to ignore.
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