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Have you ever watched a cat navigate a complex space? No wasted movement. No second-guessing. Just fluid response to the environment.
The most effective leaders I work with share this quality – an almost instinctive ability to read and respond to social dynamics. Not through forced techniques, but through cultivated awareness.
One small practice to develop this: In your next meeting, focus solely on observing energy shifts. Don’t try to change anything. Just notice. Like a cat testing its environment.
Have you ever been part of a planning session where a team spent 45 minutes debating the perfect name for their new feature flag configuration? Meanwhile, the architectural decision about their service mesh implementation got a mere two-minute discussion… If so, you’ve witnessed bikeshedding in action – a phenomenon that’s been haunting teams since before we had bikes to shed.
