Most senior leaders I work with are not failing because they lack intelligence or ambition. They are failing because they have made a quiet, largely unconscious decision: that the cost of the conversation that needs to happen is higher than the cost of not having it. That decision is wrong, and it is costing them everything. The Calculation Nobody Admits to Making Here is what I have observed across nearly four decades of working inside organizations at the highest levels. Organizational cowardice is not a character flaw. It is a rational response to a real set of incentives. When a senior leader avoids the tough conversation, they avoid the mess, the risk, and the very […]