FIELD GUIDE NO. 8
Change
Leading Through the Reorg, the Restructure, and Everything In Between
You were good at your job. The structure got redrawn anyway. Reorgs don't audit performance; they audit position, and the people holding the pen work from what they can see: who's connected to what, whose value has already been translated into language the new room carries. This guide gives you six practices for staying legible, positioned, and steady while everything around you is being redrawn, and a diagnostic that tells you where you sit before the structure moves.
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Every practice, taken apart.
Each of the six practices follows the same anatomy: the pattern I see most in coaching, the reframe that changes what you're looking at, the tool you can run this week, the coaching questions that expose it, and one experiment to run in 48 hours. Plus the real rooms where it shows up or falls apart: the new decision-maker who has never seen your work, the sponsor who just lost their own seat, the team watching how you handle it.
POSITION,
NOT PERFORMANCE
THE 48-HOUR EXPERIMENT
THE IN-BETWEEN
IS A SEASON
The reorg didn't misjudge your results. It never saw them. The Signal Read and the First 30 Days are built for the gap between what you've done and what the new room can see, because a decision-maker who inherited no context can only work from the picture in front of them.
Every practice closes with one experiment to run in a real situation within 48 hours. Not homework. Field work. You change one thing while the structure is still moving, and you watch how it lands.
Most of a reorg is the weeks when nothing is decided, and that's where leaders come apart. The Uncertainty Budget and the Cadence Installer are for exactly those weeks: what to decide anyway, what to park with a trigger, and the twenty minutes a week that stop your team filling the silence with worst cases.
How to use it.
This is a map, not a curriculum.
Start with the Change Position Check, five statements and one question that tell you where you sit before the structure moves and which practice to open first.
Read that one entry, run the experiment, use it somewhere real.
One practice. 48 hours. Come back. Then find the next one.
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