Most leadership teams sound aligned
Shared language makes alignment sound real. Whether it holds is structural.
Most leadership teams sound aligned.
The language is consistent, the terms are shared and the room moves quickly.
Delivery issue. Capacity constraint. Operational friction.
Everyone knows what those words mean.
Until they don't.
Because language compresses what each person sees.
The same word can carry four different reads, shaped by function, history, and what each person believes is actually happening.
The conversation holds. The agreement looks clean.
The action doesn't.
Each person executes against the version they understood.
The gap wasn't in the decision - it was in the meaning underneath it.
Language makes alignment sound real.
Structure decides whether it is.