Weaving our own Webs.

According to my dictionary, tensile strength measures the maximum load that can be supported without fracture when being stretched. I'm not sure how the metaphor arose this morning, but as I listened to the news, there it was.

I noted the Westminster cabinet fracturing and reforming to give us the same people in a different order in an insular village to which few of us seem connected. Survey after survey reiterating that people do not want the office to be the centre of their work-life. Global supply chains unravelling as political and commercial relationships come under pressure. It led me to reflect on what the lowest common denominator of these straws in the wind might be, and the answer is, I think, as straightforward as it is complex. 

Relationships

When our world was under more "normal" loads, we could stretch things. We had big organisations, extended supply chains, and remote connections controlled by technocratic managers to levels of efficiency measured to sigma levels of vari…