Chapter 14
The rotating council became annoying.
Success.
Men argued.
Women argued.
Younger captains questioned older ones.
No permanent seats.
Silas hated being excluded.
Fine.
One meeting, a junior manager told me my warehouse decision was stupid.
Everyone froze.
I asked why.
He explained.
He was right.
I changed it.
Afterward Graham Pike said:
“So this is what you wanted?”
“No.”
I smiled.
“This is what I needed.”
Leadership that cannot hear disagreement eventually manufactures conspiracies.
That did not excuse Edmund or Silas.
But it gave me responsibility too.
I had built a room where people feared losing status for challenging me.
They built another room.
The answer was not surrendering authority.
It was making disagreement cheaper than betrayal.
Simple.
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Difficult.
Worth it.
