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The meeting ends. Some time later, there's a side conversation about what was actually agreed. It's not the first time.

Michael Leunig’s Love and Fear reminds us how easily we interpret the world through our own lens. In international organizations, this becomes very visible. “They just don’t get it.” A sentence I hear often.

Most teams move quickly. Back-to-back meetings. Discussing, deciding, doing. Ticking off agenda items. But beneath the surface, in every room and around every table, there are layers many of us rarely create enough space to notice.

Accountability is probably one of the most common themes leaders bring up when they talk about what they would like to see shift in their organization.

Many organizations try to change culture by changing the KPIs, defining new values, by putting the values into desired behavior, and then you'll find them in your next year's appraisal. And for a while, it works.

We often see a similar dynamic in organizations between the masculine and the feminine. Not as male versus female, the challenge is far greater than the number of women and men. These are two complementary energies. Most organizations are run on what we might call masculine energy: decisive, fast, outcome-focused, in control.