Volume 3 · The Corner Cabin · Essay 109
Galileo Reality Model
Galileo Reality Model compresses a messy business into a few moving parts. The compression loses detail and gains sight.
The model's real service is conversation. It gives a group of people the same picture to point at. Half of management is just getting everyone to look at the same wall.
It is worth keeping in your pocket not because it is always right, but because it is always available. A tool you carry beats a perfect tool you left at home.
Watch a good tailor in a busy lane. He does not measure twice out of fear; he measures twice out of respect for the cloth. Teams led with that spirit rarely need scolding.
An organisation is only a group of people who have agreed, for now, to pull in roughly the same direction. Write it on the wall of the mind, not the wall of the house. The house already has enough instructions.