For a long time, something didn’t make sense to me.
We constantly hear about organisations
that don’t treat their people well.
No real involvement.
No trust.
No genuine human attention.
And yet — they don’t collapse.
That bothered me.
Over time, the picture started to clear.
These companies do function.
But mostly in survival mode.
They deliver.
But they don’t unfold.
They remain stable.
But they’re not alive.
The potential is there —
it just never gets released.
In hierarchical, fear-based systems, everyone adapts.
Some people protect themselves.
Others control.
And slowly, energy leaks out of the system.
Not because of bad intentions.
But because of learned patterns.
At the same time, very different memories live in me.
“I think of shared home projects, where we gather, do the work together,
then eat, drink, talk, and genuinely enjoy being there.”
In those moments, work doesn’t disappear.
But it doesn’t dominate life either.
From workplace experience, I’ve seen fewer examples like this.
A meeting here.
A project there.
And yet — what stays with me isn’t the task.
It’s the people.
The faces.
The connection.
The shared laughter.
The moments of collective insight.
“Maybe the difference is that the focus isn’t on the work itself,
even though it’s still respected as an essential part of the whole.”
When work isn’t over-pushed,
and of course not neglected either,
it naturally integrates into life as a whole.
In that space, people don’t operate as resources —
they show up as humans.
And in environments like this, organisations don’t just function.
They start to truly take off.
Not because people work harder.
But because, finally, they move together. ❤️