After you’ve done the work of crafting a strategy with tools we discuss here, you will be faced with a meeting to present your findings to the board of directors, the senior leaders in your department, or some other deciding managerial body, depending on your place in the organization and the scope of your work. This pattern is about how you handle that meeting. You can have the greatest strategy in the world, but if you let this meeting get away from you, you can really damage and dilute the chances for your good work to thrive.