🚨 CEOs Now Asked to Fix the Meaning Gap & More Reach Out to Me 🚨
Ok, so… your brand has to mean something not just to clients, but to employees, and other stakeholders too 💼✨
All asking:
💭 “What does this mean for me?”
💡 “What does this mean about who we are?”
🛡️ “What does this mean about our identity?”
🤝 “What does this mean about my value / safety / belonging?”
But… what does it mean to mean? 🤔
Mean
1️⃣ v. intend [approx: 1175]
2️⃣ adj. Inferior [before: 1200]
3️⃣ adj. Halfway between two extremes, intermediate
And since the word “Technology” originally referred to “Grammar”, correcting the frequency requires
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⚠️ Leaders fear being irrelevant in a meaning-scarce world.
🏛️ Institutions no longer have built-in trust reservoirs.
🌐 Culture moves faster than governance.
😶 Leaders feel privately inadequate, yet publicly must appear certain.
📊 2025 Forecast — DDI Global Leadership:
Only ~29% of people trust their immediate managers (down from 46% in 2022) 🔻
Trust in government institutions has collapsed from ~77% in 1964 → ~20% in 2022 🏛️💔
Why: The word “mean” historically has nothing to do with truth.
People now treat intention as truth:
🗣️ “I meant well.”
📝 “That wasn’t my intent.”
💭 “My meaning is valid even if the facts aren’t.”
When everything becomes “my meaning”, shared meaning collapses:
⚠️ Institutions fail
⚠️ Culture fractures
⚠️ Trust erodes
Meaning is supposed to bridge:
🌟 Internal reality ↔ External truth
🌟 Personal experience ↔ Shared context
🌟 Emotion ↔ Structure
But today?
“The whole world is talking about what things ‘mean,’ but the word ‘mean’ never meant ‘truth’ in the first place.”
Creating Culture & Relationships That:
💔 Institutions can’t hold shared meaning
💔 Leaders can’t project meaning
💔 People only trust personal meaning
💔 Truth becomes subordinate to feeling
💔 Culture outpaces governance
💔 Adaptation outpaces identity
💔 Expression outpaces understanding
All of it began with a broken projection of 1 word: mean. ⚡
Current Observe:
🏢 “Boardroom in crisis: everyone is speaking English but no one is saying the same thing.”
📖 “Employees reading the same values deck but interpreting it in opposite ways.”
📚 “A brand guideline book slowly turning into a constitution.”
CEOs want The Signal to produce their ‘true’ vocabulary.
So I become:
🗝️ Interpreter
🎛️ Cultural tuner
🛠️ Meaning-corrector
🏛️ Brand governance architect
Saying it long doesn’t mean you’re saying it right.
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