The Cost of Never Being Wrong
Something in the room changes when a senior leader enters it.Not always loudly. Usually it is subtle. People sit slightly differently. Someone who was mid-sentence trails off. The energy in the room does not collapse — it compresses. And the conversation that continues is a slightly edited version of the one that was happening before.Most leaders do not notice this. Some would dispute it if you told them. And that is, more or less, the problem.
