Do you know the signs that leadership is receiving a compressed signal?

The Lies That Hold the System Together – published next Monday, 8 June 2026.

Do you know the signs that leadership is receiving a compressed signal? You might think this is not a leadership issue.

Let’s review 8 behaviour signs and decide afterwards.

• The person who raised the concern disappears from the wording. It becomes “feedback”, “noise”, “a concern”, or “some comments”.

• The issue stays in private conversation for weeks before it enters a report, dashboard, risk register, or leadership pack.

• Dates, numbers, client names, costs, deadlines or ownership are replaced with general language.

• A warning is renamed as a “dependency”, “timing issue”, “alignment point”, “sensitivity”, or “area to monitor”.

• More evidence is requested at the point where the existing evidence would already require a decision.

• The status colour remains unchanged while careful explanatory text is added underneath.

• People describe the problem accurately at the coffee machine after the meeting, then present a cleaner version in the formal forum.

• The issue moves to the next meeting, next review, next quarter or next phase without naming the decision that was avoided.

Are there consequences? Definitely.

Can that affect your life in an organisation? Probably much more than you can imagine.

Just to mention a few: budgets, project priorities, accountability, careers, customer relationships, and the quality of the decision itself.

The Lies That Hold the System Together will be published next Monday, 8 June 2026.

I will share the link here on Monday.