The changes in Damien Corporation began in small and entirely unremarkable ways.
That was how Charles did everything that genuinely mattered to him. Not through announcements or restructuring documents distributed to the executive floor with the kind of carefully worded language designed to signal a new strategic direction without admitting the old one had been insufficient. He simply began making different decisions, and the decisions accumulated over weeks and months, and the structure of the company shifted the way a river shifts its course when the ground beneath it gradually changes, gradually and then completely, so that by the time anyone looked up to measure the distance between where it was and where it had been, the movement was already done.
