THE ORIGIN STORY

I've spent over a decade inside delivery teams — as a project manager, agile coach, and transformation lead — working with enterprises and fast-growing teams trying to change how they work. I watched smart, capable people struggle inside systems that made good work harder than it needed to be. I saw "innovation" reduced to sticky notes, rituals, and dashboards that looked busy but changed very little. Over time, a pattern became impossible to ignore. Process wasn't the real problem. Culture was. And culture doesn't change through frameworks or PowerPoint decks.

So I changed how I approached the problem.

I stopped trying to fix work with methods and tools and started paying attention to stories. The stories teams tell themselves about pressure, failure, leadership, and success. Because before you can change how people work, you have to change how they feel about work. That shift led to Workplaceish.

Not as a comic for laughs, but as a mirror. A way to surface the absurdities, contradictions, and quiet dysfunctions of modern work, the things people recognize instantly but rarely talk about out loud.

Culture Commandos exists to hold that tension.

We use advisory to intervene where work is broken, satire to say what others won't, and community to sit with the discomfort, compare notes, and slowly get better at the work, together.

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Sajit Nair