The strategic meeting ends. You ask whether everyone is aligned. Heads nod. There is polite silence, perhaps a quiet “yes, of course” from someone in the room. You feel a brief sense of relief. You are mistaken. What you have just witnessed is alignment’s counterfeit: the sound of fear, indifference or fatigue. And that sound […]
The Illusion of Alignment: Why your team only starts working at the first disagreement
The strategic meeting ends. You ask whether everyone is aligned. Heads nod. There is polite silence, perhaps a quiet “yes, of course” from someone in the room. You feel a brief sense of relief. You are mistaken. What you have just witnessed is alignment’s counterfeit: the sound of fear, indifference or fatigue. And that sound […]