The Signals of Organisational Misalignment: Reading Drift Before Business Systems Break

This book introduces a systemic framework for understanding how organizations function beneath their formal structures -- at the level of emotional load, moral tension, informal stabilization, and participation.Rather than offering tools, methods, or prescriptive interventions, the book examines how systems actually carry themselves in everyday institutional life, particularly under conditions of complexity, pressure, and uncertainty.The central premise is that organizational misalignment rarely begins with visible failure.Instead, it emerges through subtle, embodied signals: shifts in atmosphere, unspoken hesitation, informal workarounds, and the quiet redistribution of emotional and moral labor.These dynamics are widely felt by practitioners yet are often misinterpreted as individual sensitivity, interpersonal difficulty, or cultural ambiguity.The Signals of Organizational Misalignment enables reframes them as systemic signals that reveal the health, maturity, and coherence of the or