“Concrete jungle where dreams are made of”…. Alicia Keys right?
In the concrete jungle, there are beasts in suits. They prowl boardrooms, feed on quarterly reports, and their hunting ground is the bottom line.
In these open prisons, we pledge loyalty, not to people, but to logos, falling for the illusion of corporate kinship.
“I gave my soul to a brand, bled my creativity dry for a mission statement”.
When the axe falls, the process doesn’t ask about your mortgage, your kids, or your dreams deferred. It strikes with clinical detachment. A guillotine made of spreadsheets.
We’re told to leave emotions at the door, to cut off humanity for the sake of efficiency. A psychopath’s trait, glorified in boardrooms. And with each severance package, we chip away at our own humanity.
In the end, we are left to pick up the pieces, realising the beast we served was never tamed, and the loyalty we offered was to a predator in disguise.
Is there a solution?
The solution is to make businesses more human, to craft processes that prioritise people over profit. We need to strip away the bureaucracy, the red tape that strangles innovation and the human spirit. Too much control, too much scrutiny, and the ever-present threat of legal retribution turn companies into soulless machines.
We must build new systems, ways of working that value the human experience. Otherwise, as we march into the future, we’ll find ourselves mere cogs in vast, emotionless entities, grateful for surviving, but starved of purpose.
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