A leadership lesson
The whiteboard that stayed empty
A team I worked with had spent three meetings staring at the same whiteboard, unable to agree on where a new project should start. Nobody was wrong, exactly — they were simply too comfortable with each other's usual roles to challenge one another.
We moved the same conversation to a borrowed cabin for an afternoon, gave it one hard question instead of ten easy ones, and closed with everyone naming what had felt alive that day. The whiteboard back at the office was full within a week — not because the people had changed, but because the room finally let them.
