Sam Abughali

I was born in Gaza and witnessed the First Intifada. I was young, but some things do not leave you. Fear in the street. Adults measuring ordinary movement. The feeling that life can change shape before anyone is ready. It left a permanent mark inside me.

I think that is why I care so much about structure. In supply chain, I lead by leaning into structure: clearer planning, cleaner ownership, better signals, and decisions that beat failure and inconsistency under pressure.

Building structure is one of the strongest acts of organised civilisation. We make routes, rules, schedules, ledgers, teams, and institutions so life can hold for more than one person at a time.

Yet we cannot forget what we are. We are still primates with memory, hunger, fear, pride, love, and fragile bodies. A structure that forgets the human being becomes cold. A human instinct with no structure breaks everything around it.

That is the line I keep returning to in my work and in my books: the power of structure, and the fragile person living inside it.