The Organizational Gravity Podcast — Episode 2

Every month somebody at your company produces a number that goes all the way up to the board. It looks clean, on time, like the system just spit it out. Usually it didn’t. It’s a person reconciling two systems that don’t agree, doing it by hand, because if they don’t, nobody else can.

This episode is about that work. I call it human middleware. It’s what people do to hold a company together when the systems and teams underneath them don’t actually connect. And it tends to land on your best people, which is the part that should worry you.

In this episode:

- what human middleware actually is

- why it lands on your most capable people

- the cost nobody puts in a budget

- the risk that stays at zero until the day it doesn’t

- why AI exposes this work before it ever removes it

-“The organization isn’t integrated. The people are.”

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