When the World Tightens, the Smartest Organizers Listen

Why the most important meeting right now isn’t your event—it’s the conversations around it

There are moments when the world doesn’t quite break, but it tightens. You feel it first in ways that don’t immediately register as important—a flight that takes longer than it should, a conversation about travel that suddenly requires more explanation, someone who would have said yes without thinking now asking for a day or two to decide. Nothing has o…