Corporate Drift
How organizations remain active while losing contact with the reality they serve.
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01 – Focus Group
Main Idea: Raw behavior in. More content out. A model of how lived human behavior becomes extractable data, then media, then strategy.
02 – The Email Density Index
Main Idea: More CCs, less likely reality gets handled. A guide to accountability dilution. At a certain point, communication becomes theater.
03 – The Corporate Translation Pyramid
Main Idea: How reality ascends and becomes value. A breakdown of how direct human problems become abstract strategic language. By the top, the original issue barely exists.
04 – The Meeting-to-Reality Ratio
Main Idea: How organizations spend their time. A visual on the imbalance between discussing, planning, and actually doing. A familiar modern asymmetry.
05 – The Abstraction Ladder
Main Idea: How far organizations are from the thing they affect. Shows how hierarchy creates increasing distance from consequence. The higher the layer, the less contact with ground truth.
06 – The Escalation Ritual
Main Idea: Motion is not progress. A recursive loop where problems become processes instead of getting solved. A common organizational pattern.
07 – The Real Journey of Your Package
Main Idea: Outsourced. Subcontracted. Disconnected. A supply-chain view of distributed responsibility. Many hands. No ownership.
08 – The Seriousness Gradient
Main Idea: High seriousness. Low reality contact. A ranking of roles by distance from direct consequence. Often the most grounded roles carry the least symbolic weight.
