If you're not challenging it - you're enabling it.
Good executives challenge each other - every single day.
Honestly, good executives challenge most things, because if you’re not challenging it, you’re enabling it.
A lot of executive teams confuse calm for alignment.
But an absence of friction usually means no one’s pushing hard enough.
Executives are paid to challenge the status quo — respectfully, strategically, relentlessly.
Challenge isn’t conflict.
It’s commitment.
Good executives don’t just keep the wheels turning — they question whether the car is even headed in the right direction.
In any leadership team, the absence of challenge isn’t harmony.
It’s stagnation.
If you're not challenging things, who is?
If an executive is showing up just to nod along, meet KPIs, and avoid friction, they’re doing half their job.
The other half?
Asking uncomfortable questions.
Attacking red flags before they turn into breakdowns.
Offering new paths when everyone else is going with the flow.
If you’re not challenging things — systems, strategies, or each other — who is?
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