NOT TO OPTIMIZE THAM
NOT TO FIX THEIR TEAMS
But to restore alignment between who they are and the whole system they lead.
What breaks first is not strategy.
And not the team.
What breaks first is alignment the coherence between the individual and the system they lead.
Under pressure — scaling, investment, restructuring — the failure starts long before visible problems appear. It doesn’t show up in numbers.
It shows up in dynamics:
Most leaders feel it, but can’t precisely locate it:
I usually hear one or several of the following:
This state appears:
Different scale — the same root cause.
When: