Organizational Leadership: Departments, Moons, and the Work That Carries Vision
Your company is a solar system. The leaders who carry its vision are the moons, and most of them never get counted.
Your company is a solar system. The leaders who carry its vision are the moons, and most of them never get counted.
The Solar System Is the Original Org Chart The solar system is the blueprint for organizational leadership. It has been modeling organizational dynamics for four and a half billion years. Most leadership frameworks were invented in the last fifty. The org chart, the matrix, the squad model, the holacracy, the network of teams. Each one…
Most leadership advice focuses on vision and strategy. This essay explores the invisible work of translating direction into execution and the overlooked leaders who hold organizations together in real time.
The Artemis II crew trusts these people with their lives. Flight directors, science officers, backup astronauts, commentators, and hundreds of engineers across three continents. This is who they are.
Millions watched the Artemis II rocket climb into the sky. I looked for the people the camera wasn’t pointed at. What I found looked a lot like the work I’ve done my entire career.
You can brief a board without breaking a sweat. You can translate a CEO’s instinct into a ninety-day plan. You just cannot explain what any of that means when someone asks.