When the Plan No Longer Holds
New: The Life of Pi Practice: How to Build Resilience and Lead Through Uncertainty Class, a new School of WorkLife Book Club online live class is now available.
It begins with something many people in working life will recognise.
You’ve planned carefully.
You’ve anticipated the risks.
You’ve built the structure.
And then something shifts.
The plan stops working.
Not because you did something wrong.
Because that’s what plans sometimes do.
That is where Sophie’s story begins.
She’s a senior project manager — known for careful planning, structure, and reliability.
But the same pattern keeps repeating.
Carefully designed plans unravel.
Unexpected obstacles appear.
And the harder she tries to control every detail, the more fragile things seem to become.
The Life of Pi Practice: How to Build Resilience and Lead Through Uncertainty draws on Yann Martel’s Life of Pi and an eight-step framework built around the kinds of questions resilience and adaptive leadership ask of us in working life. Not in stable situations. In the moments when plans stop working — and where the ability to adapt, recover, and continue forward makes the difference.
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