Open-Mic: The Corporate Hamster Wheel - Why Organizations Keep Running and Going Nowhere

*This is a recorded event. Those who speak "on stage" will be featured in the resulting WorkCookie Podcast and WorkCookie Video Podcast episodes.

Description: Most organizations are extraordinarily good at activity and extraordinarily bad at progress. Meetings that produce more meetings, initiatives launched before the last ones landed, and leaders who are permanently busy and chronically stuck.

This session examines the invisible cycles that keep organizations in motion without forward momentum: the norms, assumptions, and unspoken rules that make dysfunction feel like diligence. We will look at where these cycles originate, why they are so difficult to break from the inside, and what it takes to interrupt them in a way that actually holds.

Discussion questions: What cycle in your organization has everyone privately acknowledged, but no one has successfully broken? What would have to change first, the structure, the behavior, or the belief?

Whether you're an I/O professional, a…