I’m still standing…
But at the moment, mostly standing still
“I’m still standing, looking like a true survivor, feeling like… someone who just had total knee replacement surgery…” — h/t Elton John 1
A number of you have been in touch to say you didn’t receive my Substack post last Sunday 23rd February.
It’s nice to imagine being missed as a regular part of someone’s Sunday routine, and it made me want to apologise for going AWOL…
The reason for my vanishing act was total knee replacement (TKR) surgery on 19th February.
As far as it’s possible to tell at this stage, it all seems to have gone well but my currently limited post-op mobility means I’ve not yet made it the 30 metres from the house down to my office studio, aka “man cave”).
My daily timetable is also still a bit haywire due to interrupted sleep patterns — hence I’m wide awake writing this at 2:30am… 🙂
So, if it’s even less coherent than usual, I’m blaming the pain meds.
I plan to be back in the saddle this week, with the next Substack piece due to wend its way via the wiggly wires of the worldwide web next Sunday 9th March.
It’ll be a short, say 10-15 minute, video in response to an excellent prompting future-fit culture, frequently asked question about how, as individuals, we can increase our positive influence when we’re embedded in a legacy organisational context awash with long established and often mutually conflicting cultural currents.
I’m looking forward to leaping, or more realistically limping, onto it in the next few days.
Do keep the questions coming. It’s much more interesting and informative to explore the real-world challenges you’re facing.
And you never know — something in the response might just spark a new insight that help you gain greater traction…
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Check out the “I’m Still Standing” music video (240 million views) on Elton John’s YouTube channel. I’m Still Standing was the second single from the 1983 album Too Low For Zero. I’ve seen the video before, but only just noticed him catch the rather dapper walking stick / cane at 1:11. A case of salience landscaping and affordance perception doing their thing…