Archive - Shift by David Bellamy

How authority bends the truth.

Aug 7 •

Shift Four: Rejection

What happens when work stops making sense?

Aug 4 •

July 2025

Shift Three: Extraction

What happens when taking pays better than making.

Jul 22 •

Shift Two: Erosion

How the bond between companies and people broke.

Jul 3 •

June 2025

And what they taught us about why people stop trying.

Jun 30 •

Leadership Isn’t Control. It’s Context.

Four leaders, one canal, and what it really means to show up in complexity.

Jun 26 •

Social Media Hasn’t Broken Work. But It Has Changed the Rules.

When I recently shared an article about how quickly people label each other — especially at work — a few people pointed to social media as the root…

Jun 25 •

When Did Everyone Become Toxic?

And What Are We Really Talking About When We Say That?

Jun 11 •

SHIFT Chapter One: Primacy

The story that rewrote work. How a single economic idea became the operating system for modern business.

Jun 8 •

SHIFT: You Feared Chaos. We Saw Care.

Last time, I wrote about how fear encouraged the system to reject Harkn. This time, I want to show you why those fears were unfounded.

Jun 3 •

May 2025

Why Harkn Failed — And What That Reveals About the System

Since announcing the closure of Harkn, I’ve been asked the same question repeatedly: Why did it fail?

May 21 •

Telling the Story Is Easy. Living It Is the Hard Part.

When the story stops matching reality, the cost doesn’t show up in the narrative.It shows up in your people.

May 12 •

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