Field Notes

What an MBA capstone, a real client, and two years of strategy work reminded me about the hidden architecture of team execution. There is a specific quiet that descends in a team meeting when nobody knows who owns the next move. The agenda is on screen. Three people are nodding. Someone says, "yeah, we should figure that out." The meeting ends. Nothing happens. That silence is expensive. Most teams have it weekly and have stopped noticing. For the last four months, I have bee