
Stuck in the Middle 33: Do We Need Managers?
The recent rounds of layoffs, which have hit middle managers particularly hard, have raised an important question. 1 Do we even need middle managers anymore?

Stuck in the Middle #32: Narrative for Individual Change
I have gotten some feedback that what I have been writing has been too dense and not actionable enough. This week, I am going to

Stuck in the Middle #31: Thinking Differently About Change Management
In past newsletters, I have reviewed several books on the transindividual, and while those were densely theoretical, I am now working on making them more

Stuck in the Middle #30: Mythocracy Part 2
In the previous newsletter, we looked at how Yves Citton defines power (as the flow of desire and belief) in his book Mythocracy: How Stories

Stuck in the Middle #29: Mythocracy Part 1
‘I’m telling people that they’ve tried everything, and now they have to try mythocracy. They’ve got a democracy, theocracy. The mythocracy is what you never

Stuck in the Middle #28: How we come to be who we are.
This summer, I will give a talk at Agile 2025 on how we shape and are shaped by the systems we inhabit. For research on