06/29/2026
Organizations don’t execute agreements. They execute interpretations.
Most of us have seen this happen: everyone leaves a meeting thinking there is agreement, but a week later the work starts drifting in different directions.
That is the gap between agreement and alignment.
On July 23, Matt Arnold is leading a free Maven Lightning Lesson with The Sensemakers Club on how teams create shared understanding when the picture is incomplete.
Free and open to all.
Register here:
Teams often leave a meeting believing they are aligned, only to discover later that everyone is executing a different version of the same decision. The issue is rarely communication. More often, it's a lack of shared understanding. As complexity increases, organizations must collaborate across more....
