Aligned in the deck. Not in the room.
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Revenue is up. Headcount is healthy. The dashboard is green across the board.
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The offsite produced a strategy deck. The deck had four priorities. Each of your four directors picked a different one to actually care about.
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Your COO says "customer obsession." Your CFO hears "margin expansion." Your Head of Product hears "ship faster." None of them are wrong. None of them are the same.
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The monthly review is 90 minutes of yes. The hallway afterward is 30 minutes of but actually.
Nobody is fighting.
That is not the same as alignment.
The Slack DMs between your C-level pairs contain the actual strategic disagreement. You are not in any of those DMs.
· The part the dashboard cannot show ·
The team is not broken.
It is drifting.