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If the real conversation happens in the corridor, your meeting is theatre. How to move the truth back into the room.

If the real conversation happens in the corridor, your meeting is theatre.

Most executive teams I meet are polite in the room and honest outside it. The fix is rarely a new agenda. It is a leader who can hear disagreement without punishing it — and who proves that, visibly, three or four times.

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