<p>Most executives don’t <em>mean</em> to hijack meetings. They’re trying to inspire, clarify, or share that one story from 1998 they swear still applies. But somewhere between “You know,..." and minute 17 of the monologue, the meeting quietly dies inside. <strong>Pontification isn’t leadership. It’s just very expensive noise. (And I've been guilty of it myself.)</strong></p><p>Organizations don’t suffer from a lack of ideas from the top. They suffer from a lack of space for ideas from everyone else.</p>
