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WA1: The Diagnostic (carousel)
Your team's underperformance probably isn't a performance capability problem. I've watched capable teams get labeled as underperformers when the real problem was never their effort. It was the gap between what leadership decided and what the team understood. Misalignment is quiet, so it doesn't announce itself as conflict. It shows up as motion without progress, where your best people stay busy, hit their tasks, and somehow the business still isn't moving the way it should. Most leaders respond by adding pressure through more check-ins, more dashboards, and more urgency, and all of it lands on people who are already working hard on the wrong things. You can't out-work a broken translation between strategy and execution. More effort on a misaligned team just gets you to the wrong place faster. Alignment isn't a personality trait some teams have and others don't. It's a leadership skill. It can be diagnosed, and it can be built. Which of your teams is working hard and still not moving the way you need it to?
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