When the Ground Keeps Shifting
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It begins with something many people in professional life will recognise.
You’ve been managing instability.
Adapting to changes.
Holding things together through one disruption after another.
And gradually, something shifts in how you’re thinking about it.
Not — when will this settle?
But — what if it doesn’t?
That is where Elsa’s story begins.
She’s a highly capable programme lead — known for staying calm under pressure and holding complex projects together.
But the instability has stopped feeling temporary.
Leadership changes repeatedly.
Structures are reorganised.
Priorities shift every few months.
And she can no longer settle into stable ground before the next disruption arrives.
The Essun Practice: How to Stay Effective Through Change and Ongoing Uncertainty draws on N. K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season and a five-step framework built around the kinds of questions endurance and adaptive leadership ask of us in working life. Not when change is temporary. In the periods when instability becomes ongoing — and where learning to function within it, rather than waiting for it to end, makes all the difference.
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