Your team is protecting you from the conversation.
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You hired smart people. They are not the problem.
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Your COO has seen the friction. They have not brought it to you because they think that is what good COOs do.
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Your CFO has seen it. They have not named it because you are the founder and they do not want to tell you your strategy is not landing.
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Your board has noticed. They will not name it because the numbers are still green and they do not want to sound alarmist.
Nobody inside the orbit is positioned to name it.
Each of them has a reason not to.
This is not a cowardice problem. This is a structural problem. Your orbit is doing their jobs. Their jobs do not include naming the drift.
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The conversation your team is protecting you from
is the same one they want someone to have with you.