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It is less complicated
than you think

But it no longer works

About presence and responsibility

Not everyone belongs here.

Those who are still looking for direction, language, or explanations will find little here.
Those who have long seen what is happening
and notice that understanding has begun to replace action
stays.

Understanding is rarely untrue.
But among powerful people, it often becomes a form of defense.
It orders, nuances, and legitimizes
until delay feels reasonable.

Nothing is added here.
Not accelerated.
Not solved.

What is wrong remains visible.
What is true asks not for consent or interpretation,
but to be carried in decision, not in language.

Intelligence is no advantage here.
Nor is experience.
Background explains little.

The only question is
whether you can stay here
when your usual explanations lose their effect.

This is not guidance.
No trajectory.
No promise.

This is an intervention.

A conversation
that briefly interrupts the existing order,
in which escape routes disappear
and responsibility returns
to the one who has long carried it.

Hans Ruinemans – Boardroom Monk en Executive Mentor
Business Tales – Executive Mentoring voor Bestuurders