Greg Stevenson warns that when everyone agrees with you, it's a sign something is wrong. As your influence grows, people stop disagreeing because dissent becomes costly. Leaders need to actively create space for honest feedback, or they'll lose touch with reality.
The day everyone starts agreeing with you is not the day you have arrived. It's the day to start getting worried. As you rise, disagreeing with you gets more expensive for everyone around you, so they stop disagreeing with you. The room goes quiet, the nodding starts, and you make the mistake it's for alignment. It's not alignment. It's a warning that the truth has stopped reaching you. The leaders who last go and make it safe to be told that they are wrong. Subscribe to this channel. I go here every day.
