When executives treat confidence as a virtue and doubt as a flaw, innovation pays the price.  You sit in a room full of brilliant people, and yet almost no real thinking happens. The same voices dominate. Slides are defended like legal briefs. Questions feel like attacks. Decisions are presented as foregone conclusions.  It looks like confidence. It feels like competence. But what you’re actually seeing is a quiet, well-organized cult. The cult of certainty. In cultures like

Leaders can’t control the field they play on, but they can always control how they show up An executive sits across from me on Zoom, frustrated. Their boss is a micromanager. Their company’s politics are suffocating. Their peers don’t understand the technical details of the work. They want advice on how to fix the system. Or better yet, how to fix other people. It is a common beginning to a coaching conversation, and it reveals something most leaders do without realizing it.

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