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Scenario

How executive teams maintain the illusion of alignment while undermining execution

Our executive team does these quarterly planning sessions where we pretend we're all aligned on priorities but then we go back to our departments and quietly compete for resources and roadmap space. Everyone acts like this is just normal organizational dynamics but it's killing our ability to actually execute anything coherently.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Leaders are participating in collaborative theater while allowing destructive competition to continue at the operational level.

Your guide for this
Aurelius
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Peri

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