Quiet Ops Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:51:56 +0200 en-gb © 2026 Quiet Ops yes de94867f-2b14-5606-acb9-09f39f413add paul.mitchem@pmit.ch Paul Mitchem episodic true Almost nothing that breaks a person, a marriage, or an organisation is one big event. It's noise. Quiet, constant, building for years until it isn't quiet anymore.

Quiet Ops is eight episodes, one story at a time, about finding that noise and going upstream to reduce it. My career. My marriage. My body. My family. All real. All verified. No theory dressed up as a story.

I'm Paul Mitchem. Twenty five years in operational leadership. This is what I actually learned.

]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) Paul Mitchem paul.mitchem@pmit.ch https://storage.buzzsprout.com/r5iiyq03se6nt31vekwk6y4tpm5k?.jpg Quiet Ops Chapter One - The Noise Chapter One - The Noise My son was twelve when he looked at me the way you look at someone you're worried about. We were on a mountain. I was frightened, and it had nothing to do with the mountain.

This is the story of how I got there. Not the dramatic version. The quiet one. Years of noise, building underneath a life that still, mostly, looked fine.

Chapter One of Quiet Ops. Eight chapters. Eight episodes. Real stories about noise, and what happens when you finally go looking for where it started.

Prefer to read it? The full piece is up on LinkedIn.

]]> My son was twelve when he looked at me the way you look at someone you're worried about. We were on a mountain. I was frightened, and it had nothing to do with the mountain.

This is the story of how I got there. Not the dramatic version. The quiet one. Years of noise, building underneath a life that still, mostly, looked fine.

Chapter One of Quiet Ops. Eight chapters. Eight episodes. Real stories about noise, and what happens when you finally go looking for where it started.

Prefer to read it? The full piece is up on LinkedIn.

]]> Paul Mitchem Buzzsprout-19670372 Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0200 545 quiet ops, burnout, operational leadership, noise, career, family 1 1 full true