Quiet Shift Notes #02 – Culture doesn’t ride in on carts. It walks in on a shared narrative.

6,789 slides wobble behind Owen as he drags a cart with a jammed wheel toward Glass Room B—“culture” funded by a lone change lead, promised as the change leader, a training module no one finished, and three must-use comms templates.

Ops, IT, Finance file in—checkboxes all green, spirits neutral.

Every behaviour tweak logged; zero energy moved.

Down the hall glides the VP with two glossy consultants. One smirks at the poster ahead:

“Technology that will reinvent your culture—and the way you walk through the door.”

Owen opens the Stakeholder Readiness Tracker—wall-to-wall green.

He wedges Deck #478 under the cart, flips a coffee-stained napkin, and writes:

Narrate the stories of place, people, moment—watch the shadows speak.

Then what? Align. Venture.

Laptop snaps shut. Meeting begins—no slides, just a question.

 
— Culture doesn’t ride in on carts; it walks in on a shared narrative. —

— Owen Shore

Reluctant Change Leader · Quiet Shift Notes

(Yes—Owen is a character, not me.)

 
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