Every leader knows the feeling. Strong team. Real resources. Genuine effort. And yet the results don't compound the way they should. The instinct is to fix the strategy. Hire better. Run another offsite. Bring in a consultant who produces a report nobody reads past page twelve.
None of it works — not because the ideas are wrong, but because the underlying problem was never examined. Something in the way your organization receives and transmits information has quietly broken down. Not dramatically. Gradually. And from the inside, it's almost impossible to see.
The people closest to the work didn't run out of ideas. They ran out of places to put them.