26/07/2026
Somewhere in every organisation, a decision is waiting for approval from someone who has stopped looking at it.
Not rejected. Not escalated. Just... pending.
Filed under in progress. Mentioned in meetings. Copied into emails. Referenced in passing. Assumed to be moving.
It isn’t moving.
It is sitting exactly where it landed weeks ago, quietly ageing past relevance while everyone downstream waits for a signal that never comes.
The search for approval rarely ends with “no.”
It usually ends with silence.
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