A leadership team often focuses on the decisions in front of it: setting direction, allocating resources, and resolving the difficult issues that reach its level. During change, those decisions can come quickly, with incomplete information and pressure to keep things moving. But every decision al...

Almost every leadership team I meet asks for the same thing: “Get us aligned.” They want to agree on priorities, strategy, and the way forward. They want to leave the room knowing they’re moving in the same direction, with fewer conversations going in circles and more confidence that decisions wi...

Ask a project team who owns a decision, and watch what happens. Sometimes you get a clear answer. More often, there’s a pause. A glance around the table. A careful, “Well, it depends.” And that pause may be part of why the project is moving more slowly than everyone wants it to. Last week, I wrot...