SOCIAL

September 2026 Posts in celebration of Labor Day   In celebration of Labor Day we are going to spend September talking about work. Why devote a month to work? Because you will spend 90,000 hours, a third of your life, at your job, so it is a good idea to make the best of it.  My father always said, “I never worked a day in my life.”

Most organizations address Layer 2, the emotion and psychology of their teams and organization, only through workshops, offsites, and retreats, and those are a valuable part of the work. What they don’t fully account for is that Layer 2 is not an event; it is happening in every meeting, every conversation, every moment where people

At Geigsen we understand that leadership happens at Three Layers simultaneously, and working across all three is how organizations keep their strategy and their people aligned without ever treating them as separate things. The first layer is the visible work. The strategy, the decisions, the execution, and the structures that hold everything accountable to the

Of the three distinct layers where leadership happens, the transaction, the emotion and psychology, and the awareness, the second one tends to get the least attention and has the most impact on whether the strategy gets executed. Layer 2 is where the emotion and psychology of your organization are operating. Not in a separate conversation

At Geigsen we work at the intersection of strategy and people. Here is what that has taught us. Strategy and people developed as separate disciplines, with separate expertise, separate departments, and separate consultants. It was industry standard, and like a lot of industry standards, it was never really questioned. What we have come to understand