Here is the uncomfortable version of how to get a leadership team out of its comfort zone: most executive teams are not avoiding the hard conversation. They’re having it, often well, often with real candour. The problem sits one layer down, in the beliefs nobody...
Nearly every executive team AJ works with can produce a moment of genuine, visible agreement: heads nodding around the table, a slide with three priorities everyone signed off on, a sense that the hard conversation finally happened. Executive team alignment looks, in...
Every leadership offsite agenda gets built the same way: someone opens a shared document, invites the team to add topics, and the day gets ordered by whoever submitted first, whoever shouted loudest in the planning call, or whoever has the most urgent-sounding...
