The organization structure is carefully built. There are special slots for the favoured ones, deliberate spaces between some so that the connections are not too obvious.
They need to control it from all sides – ensuring that followers stay on a predetermined path, managing dissent, building intelligence networks to know what’s happening on the ground. Management education is not complete, till one has mastered the techniques.
The new recruit learns soon that navigation, manoeuvring, manipulation and conspiracy all mean the same thing. The smugness gives way to despair, as he sees heads popping out of white spaces. Nobody taught him how to manage invisible forces.
spring seems eternal
it’s not time for winter yet
-unexpected snow?
I have never really mastered the maze of a corporate grid… but I have reached an age where I’m past most frustration and can focus only on work.
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It is the way many would like to work.
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I like the reference to “invisible forces” and how it is all set up so “connections are not too obvious”.
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Thank you, Frank!
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I like how you describe someone who thinks in concrete terms can be thrown by the info in the spaces between the lines.
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Perfect interpretation! 😀
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🙂
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A unique and startling interpretation of the artwork…how structure becomes controlling.
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Thank you, Lynn!
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woah! For some reasons this felt like Maze Runner to me! such a creative take, Reena!
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Thank you so much!
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Your ekphrastic haibun has a touch of science fiction, Reena, although it has both feet planted in our current reality, with ‘special slots for the favoured ones, deliberate spaces between some so that the connections are not too obvious’. The ‘intelligence networks to know what’s happening on the ground’ are particularly worrying, as are the invisible forces. This spring does seem eternal – and who knows what will happen next!
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It is actually a corporate or political structure, not sci-fi 🙂
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Ah!
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