My deputy and I have been running this agency division for eight years and we used to push each other on the hard decisions but now we just nod along when stakeholders make unreasonable demands and I think we've both gotten tired of being the ones who say no. We're approving things we would have fought against three years ago and neither of us is calling it out.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two senior officials have defaulted to accommodation over principled resistance, creating a drift toward decisions that violate their shared professional standards.
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