The Cage and the Mirror

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How to Make Rigid Organizations Resilient Again

Jeremy McEntire

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English

Cage & Mirror Publishing
01 January 2026

Management & management techniques; Organisational theory & behaviour

Every organization runs on maps - profit and loss statements, performance reviews, strategic frameworks. These maps compress reality into something manageable. The compression is inevitable. Scale demands abstraction.

But maps always erase something. And what gets erased is often what matters most: prevention work that manifests as silence, multiplicative value that defies attribution, craft that compounds invisibly, judgment that refuses to fit the form.

The standard literature offers aspiration. This book offers mechanics.

The Cage and the Mirror explains why the erasure is structural, not cultural - why it persists regardless of leadership quality, survives every process improvement, and intensifies as organizations scale. Drawing on Gödel's incompleteness theorems, information theory, corporate law, and two decades inside organizations under pressure, it reveals why the Cage is not a problem to be solved but a physics to be navigated.

This is not a book of solutions. It is a book of sight.

Excellence requires variance. The Cage eliminates variance. Therefore, the Cage eliminates excellence.

By: Jeremy McEntire
Imprint: Cage & Mirror Publishing
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 431g
ISBN: 9798994034323
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 January 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jeremy McEntire has spent two decades in software and systems architecture, working inside organizations where scale pressures expose the underlying physics of coordination. His roles across enterprise technology companies and startups as CTO and Head of Engineering gave him proximity to the mechanisms by which capability succeeds or fails-the invisible work that sustains it, the structural incentives that destroy it, and the patterns leaders feel before they can name them. He writes at cageandmirror.com.