Volume 3 · The Corner Cabin · Essay 246
Societal Change Framework
A framework is scaffolding, not the building. Societal Change Framework holds your thinking up while you do the real work.
Use the framework as a checklist, not a straitjacket. The moment it starts answering questions for you, rather than sharpening them, put it back in the drawer.
Strip it to the floor and you find an old instruction: look carefully, judge slowly, act decently. The new name exists because the old instruction keeps being forgotten.
The best school principal is visible at the gate in the morning and invisible during the teachers' period. Presence at the right hour, absence at the right hour — that is the whole craft.
An organisation is only a group of people who have agreed, for now, to pull in roughly the same direction. No ceremony needed. Begin with the very next decision.