How Long Have You Been Carrying It?

For eight weeks, I've been writing about the conversations leaders avoid.

The Leadership Gap. The Delay Narratives. The Sabotage Patterns. The Conversation Window.

Today, the direct version.

I work with founders and CEOs of established businesses, most of which are between $5M and $50M, many of them family enterprises. The ones who get the most from this work have three things in common.

They're carrying at least one conversation they've been avoiding for months. With a partner. A successor. A long-tenured executive. A family member in the business.

They've already tried the communication training. Read the books. Rehearsed the scripts. It didn't hold, because the problem was never the words. And they know the cost is compounding. Decisions are getting routed around someone. The team feels the tension and manages it instead of the work.

What we do together is not communication coaching. We name the conversation. We name what's been protecting you from it. Then the conversation happens. Usually within weeks, not quarters, because the delay was the problem, and once the protection has a name, it loosens.

What's on the other side is what I wrote about last week. Not one resolved conversation. A shorter gap between noticing and saying, permanently. Truth that arrives while it's still small.

If you read this far and one specific conversation came to mind, that's the signal. It's the same signal you've been overriding for months.

Message me. You don't need to share anything confidential. Just tell me how long you've been carrying it.

Silence charges interest.

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In all that we do, let us seek wisdom, discipline, courage & justice.

Be well,

Keita

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