The Mechanism
Your leadership story
is running a protection
racket on your
organization.
847
executives studied
$227K
average annual bleed rate
90
days to close the gap
Every senior leader develops a story about the source of their value. That story was accurate once. It earned them this role.
At some point, the story stopped describing a capability and started demanding one — in every meeting, every decision, every moment of organizational life.
When that happens, the organization stops getting the capability.
It starts getting the performance of it.
Performance costs more than it produces.