I could not leave a loose thread alone.
Long before it was a career, I was watching how systems treat people, who actually holds power, and what happens when the official story does not match what people experience. Over thirty years that curiosity turned into a way of reading organizations.
Pull the thread and see where it leads.
Brooke Erickson
The Loose Thread
The chapters of one question I never stopped pulling at: who holds power in a place, and what that power does to the person holding it.
The outcome of the reading
The ten signals
An index of how an organization reveals itself
Field reading
Ten signals live
Signal 01
Information Flow
How context moves, changes, stalls, or disappears across the organization.
Read alone, each one is an observation. Read together, they are a diagnosis.
Where to go next
Writes in trade press. Thinks in systems. Suspicious of tidy answers.