GRACE Works

business, management, entrepreneurship · EN

You can usually tell when pressure has started to change you. The conversation that would have taken ten minutes last year now takes three emails and a meeting. You are shorter with people you like. You catch yourself listening for the end of someone's sentence rather than the sense of it.GRACEWorks is a podcast about our capacity to relate. To each other, and to ourselves, and particularly under pressure, whether that pressure arrived by accident, came from outside, or is something we have quietly done to ourselves.If you have built something, you will know a particular version of this. You hired well. You meant to step back. And still the hard calls land on your desk, everything comes back to you, and the business keeps growing while leadership feels increasingly stretched.That is rarely a talent problem. What usually happens is that complexity grows faster than the ways people have learned to work together. The organisation has not yet learned to carry what growth is asking of it