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Sometimes it feels like leaders reach for alignment the way we order the ‘healthy option’ … and then add fries.

It sounds constructive, avoids blame and implies unity. It gives the room something to do. But when alignment becomes the diagnosis, it often signals something more specific. The system is protecting an ambiguity it doesn’t want to face. Comfort dressed up as progress.

Do you have a clarity problem? Or do you have a naming problem?

When problems are named imprecisely, effort increases but direction does not.

| From Noise to Clarity |Part 1| explores why clarity begins with precise naming and what changes, once leaders stop misdiagnosing the problem.

Between the Lines is a leadership newsletter for executives and senior professionals navigating complexity, change, and the human dynamics beneath strategy.

Each issue examines what lives between alignment meetings and delivery plans, where clarity erodes, kindness becomes avoidance, and well-intentioned systems quietly limit performance.