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WA3: The 3-Level Alignment Model (carousel)

Alignment breaks at three levels, and most leaders only look at one. Level 1 is the company. What leadership actually decided, ranked, with the trade-offs named out loud. Not the polished deck. The real priorities. Level 2 is you. What you translate to your team from that direction. This is where most alignment quietly dies. Level 3 is the team. What your people actually do on Monday morning. If their work doesn't trace cleanly back to Level 1, you don't have a performance problem. You have a translation gap. What I see most often is that the company has a sound strategy and the team is capable and willing, which leads to the leader in the middle assuming alignment exists even though it was never actually established or built. Translating strategy into executable direction is hard, unglamorous work that rarely makes it onto anyone's calendar. Your real job as a leader lives at Level 2. Company priorities come in. Clear team execution goes out. When that translation is missing, no amount of effort on either end closes the gap. Where is the translation breaking between what your leadership decided and what your team is actually doing?