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Most organizations don’t become difficult to lead because of bad decisions. They become difficult to lead because reasonable, short-term choices accumulate into systems no one ever re-examines. Over time, structure hardens, judgment diffuses, and capable people find themselves working harder for diminishing returns.

Leadership teams can be extraordinarily busy and still fail to make meaningful progress. The culprit is rarely effort; it’s misalignment baked into the system itself.