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Same Person, Different Ground: Why Does Visibility Disappear?

I have been thinking about a distinction that is easy to miss: value does not necessarily disappear when visibility does. Something you have built, grown and given life to can continue to carry value even when the system around you no longer reflects it back.

After years inside an industry — close to decisions, outcomes and international markets — stepping outside that structure can produce a strange effect. You remain the same person. The experience is still there. So are the judgement and the instincts. Yet your visibility can change almost overnight.

Perhaps the issue was never simply a “talent gap”. Perhaps it is also about where organisations look for value, how they define it and what they are able to measure. The person creating value and the profile a system recognises are not always the same. When the ground changes, the language through which value is expressed changes with it.

This is why value may need to be treated less like an off-the-shelf product and more like tailoring. It has to fit the organisation, its context and its culture. A strong culture can explain what still fits when the ground shifts — and what needs to be altered.

If hiring and career systems remain copy-and-paste exercises, experienced people can become invisible even while their underlying value remains intact.

The ground will keep changing. The more useful question is how we translate what we have built into the context where value is now being created.

English and Turkish are presented as companion editorial versions. The argument and authorship remain Damla Sanberk’s.
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Same Person, Different Ground: Why Visibility Disappears

I have been thinking about the difference between value and the visibility of value.

Value does not simply disappear. What you have built, learned and developed can remain with you. Yet when you step outside the system in which that value was once recognised, it can become difficult for others to see.

The person is the same. The experience, perspective and professional reflexes remain. What changes is the ground on which they are interpreted.

Perhaps the issue is not always a talent gap. It may also be about where and how organisations measure value.

A person who creates value and the profile a system knows how to recognise are not necessarily the same. When the ground changes, the language through which value becomes visible changes with it.

This is why value may need to be understood more like something tailored than something mass-produced. Strong culture helps an organisation understand what fits, what needs to change and what should remain visible as the context shifts.