She sits back, taking in the shocked silence around the table. Then she says, “I’ve seen this happen before. We, the company, get too confident, too complacent. We think we know everything, that we have it all figured out. “I worry about this for everyone, even me. I worry about the day when people won’t tell me the truth straight. When they won’t have the hard conversation with me. When I sit in a meeting and everyone will agree with me. They won’t give me the bad news. They won’t challenge me. We are our own greatest risk. All of us.” I hang on every word. This seems like such impressive
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