The meeting is not the room where the real conversation happens.
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The real strategic disagreement is not in the leadership meeting.
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It is in the Slack DM between your CFO and your COO. They are having a serious conversation about margin versus growth. You are not in it.
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It is in the dinner after the offsite. Two of your directors had the real conversation about what the strategy actually means. You went to bed early.
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It is in what your Head of Product almost said in the last review and then decided not to. You saw the pause. You did not ask about it.
Everyone is avoiding the disagreement.
The disagreement is running the company.
The meeting consensus is a coping mechanism. Your team is protecting you from the conversation you need to have. They think that is loyalty. It is drift.
· The meeting you never scheduled ·
The real meeting is the one where someone says "I disagree"
out loud. You have not scheduled one of those this year.