Greg Stevenson explains why leaders stop hearing honest feedback as they rise: people around them fear the cost of disagreement. Feedback gets delayed, softened, or filtered until it's useless. He argues leaders must deliberately hunt for uncomfortable truth.
Nobody warned you that the better you lead, the less truth reaches you. As you rise, disagreeing with you gets more expensive for everyone around you. So they soften it. They wait until after the meeting. They tell each other, but not you. Nobody is lying. The truth just arrives later, smaller, and too polished to act on. The leaders who last go looking for it on purpose. So when did someone tell— last tell you something you did not want to hear? Follow this channel for more on the interior game of leadership.
