t&i Universe
Therapy for 21st Century Organizations
The everyday absurdities of modern work, illustrated.
Stories about teams, leadership, culture, change, innovation and the strange things perfectly sensible people do inside organizations.
Work is serious
Understanding it doesn't always have to be.
Organizations are full of contradictions.
We ask people to take ownership, then require approval.
We say we want innovation, then punish failure.
We create meetings to solve the problems created by other meetings.
We want teams to move faster, while giving them less time to think.
The t&i Universe uses simple stories and recurring characters to make these patterns visible. Sometimes the easiest way to see an organization differently is to laugh at ourselves first.
Meet the cast
Different people. Different ways of seeing.
The t&i Universe follows a recurring group of people working inside modern organizations.
Some value expertise and certainty.
Some want results.
Some care deeply about people.
Some challenge everything.
Some have been in the organization for twenty years.
Some arrived last month and cannot understand why everyone accepts something that obviously makes no sense.
Together, they help us explore how different mindsets shape the way organizations work.
There is something underneath the joke
Every story starts with an everyday organizational situation.
But underneath are deeper questions.
How do we make decisions?
What do we believe about people?
Where does control live?
What happens when we disagree?
What does autonomy actually mean?
How do structures shape behavior?
What kind of organization are we becoming?
The comics are not answers, they are invitations to look again.
From a comic to a conversation
Use the t&i Universe with your team.
Pick a comic.
Ask:
Where do we see this here?
Then:
What keeps producing this pattern?
And finally:
What might we try instead?
Three simple questions can turn a humorous image into a surprisingly deep organizational conversation.
Reflect
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