Articles
24 February 2026 · Andrés Fossas
Disconnected Drift: When the Culture System Goes Offline
When Challenge and Care both go missing within an organisation – Most culture problems are about imbalance: too much challenge without enough care, or too much care without enough challenge. But there’s one profile that feels different. Not unbalanced, just no longer doing its job. Offline.
16 February 2026 · Andrés Fossas
The Culture of Relentless Efficiency
When challenge is high, but care goes missing – High performance cultures can be exhilarating, especially in their early days. Decisions move fast. Standards are high. The mission feels urgent. But when challenge rises faster than care, performance can spike in the short term and then quietly start to fray.
7 January 2026 · Andrés Fossas
Gentle Coasting
When care is high—but challenge goes missing – In our last post, we introduced the Care–Challenge Framework: a simple lens for understanding why cultures thrive, stall, or burn out. This time, we’re zooming into one of the most common (and most misunderstood) patterns we see in organisations: high care, low challenge—what we call Gentle Coasting.
6 January 2026 · Andrés Fossas
The Care–Challenge Map: Four Common Culture Profiles
In the last post, we introduced the Care–Challenge Framework: a simple lens for understanding why cultures thrive, stall, or burn out. The core idea is that healthy cultures provide both care (support, trust, belonging) and challenge (standards, stretch, accountability). When those two forces are balanced, they reinforce each other.
5 January 2026 · Andrés Fossas
The Care–Challenge Framework: The Hidden Axis of Culture
Care grounds you. Challenge stretches you. Growth requires both. A Head of HR once said something to me that I’ve heard in different forms for years: “People here feel safe. We’ve invested in wellbeing. Psychological safety is strong. What I don’t understand is… why aren’t people bringing new ideas?”