Signal and Silence: A Novel in Messages About Work, Power and Responsibility
Language: English
Published by Independently published, 2026
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- Title
- Signal and Silence: A Novel in Messages About Work, Power and Responsibility
- Author
- Ting, Jeffrey
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798188891060
Synapse Bridge Systems is growing quickly. Its software is ambitious, its people are capable, and its founder sees opportunities everywhere. But as the company expands across offices and time zones, clarity begins to disappear.
Gerrard Harrow, Head of Engineering, believes that difficult work can be managed with patience, competence and decent professional conduct. When a founder’s vision becomes an urgent deadline, he helps the team deliver. When authority becomes unclear, he creates records. When people need support, he makes time.
Then a family appointment changes the balance of power. Decisions move into private calls. Risks are revised in documents. Responsibility is passed along without anyone quite accepting it.
Sent to establish a new overseas office, Gerrard builds a capable team and a culture of trust. Yet the more the organisation depends on him to make sense of uncertainty, the harder it becomes to tell whether he is protecting the system or quietly becoming its most serious bottleneck.
As financial pressure grows, the company starts to measure people by what can be counted. Payroll, client commitments, process, loyalty and professional judgement are reduced to workbooks, status reports and operating models. The messages continue. The work continues. But the structure beneath them is beginning to fail.
Signal and Silence is a thoughtful novel about work, leadership, ethical influence, digital communication and organisational power. It explores what happens when technology carries messages perfectly but fails to carry context, responsibility or care.
For readers interested in professional life, workplace culture, leadership, remote work and the human consequences of systems that value what is visible over what is essential.
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