with Alec Pearson

What happens when everyone around the leadership table has a perfectly reasonable case and the business still can’t move?

Sales wants growth. Finance wants to protect cash. Operations is already stretched. HR is looking at capability. Risk wants stronger controls.

Nobody is obviously wrong, but that is precisely the problem.

Alec explores one of the harder realities of senior leadership: the decisions where there is no clean answer, no obvious villain and no neat framework to hide behind.

As planning season begins, the challenge is not always deciding what matters.

Sometimes it is deciding what matters more.

In this episode:

• Why good leadership teams can still get stuck even when everyone around the table has a reasonable case
• What changes when senior leaders stop defending their function and start thinking about the whole enterprise
• Why some of the hardest leadership decisions are not between right and wrong, but between competing versions of right

If your leadership team is busy, capable and working hard, but the organisation still feels harder to move than it should, this episode is worth your time.

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