Most people in this industry don't have the altitude to step back.

observation — attributed to Mike Duignan

They are producing the next event, solving the next venue problem, answering the next sponsor demand, dealing with the next staffing issue. The work is live, local, deadline-driven, and all-consuming. Even when the audience is global, the labor is rooted in a place and a moment. You rarely get enough altitude to ask how the whole thing should work. That is why the connective tissue almost never gets built from inside.

Why the structural work of the Centre had to come from a position slightly outside the operator's daily loop.

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