PrefaceI’ve never claimed to be an academic. I’m not from any specific discipline, nor do I hold titles that grant me automatic authority in this space. What I do have is a mind that’s always been wired for patterns—drawn not to specialization, but to synthesis. In consulting, I often found myself not solving the problem directly in front of me, but navigating what surrounded it—the messy, sneaky complexity that no one thought to map. My default posture has been that of the observer, stepping...