The Meeting Didn’t Fail — The Framing Did

A new year feels like a reset. Every conversation we start — whether it’s with engineers deep in the detail or people sitting in the core decision-making space — comes with a fresh set of possibilities. But only if we slow down enough to actually use them. Most transformation work doesn’t fail because people disagree. It fails because everyone is answering a different question. Engineering is thinking about feasibility and architecture. Finance is thinking about cost and run-rate. Leadership is thinking about risk, timing, and confidence.