The Most Expensive Problem In Your Company Right Now Is Invisible.
Invisible.
Most CEOs don’t have a strategy problem.
They have an alignment problem.
Here’s how it usually shows up:
Your team is working hard, but the big bets aren’t moving.
Everyone says they know the priorities, but their calendars tell a different story.
You are still the one connecting the dots across functions.
Every quarter starts with energy and ends with “we’ll do better next time.”
You feel the drag.
You just can’t pinpoint the source.
So you do what most CEOs do:
✔️ Approve another reorg
✔️ Hire another senior leader
✔️ Add another tool
✔️ Run another offsite
It helps for a few weeks.
Then the same patterns come back.
Not because your people are bad.
Not because your strategy is wrong.
But because execution is unaligned.
What “unaligned execution” actually looks like
Unaligned execution is not loud chaos.
It’s quieter.
It sounds like:
“We’re working on it.”
“We thought that was a Q3 thing.”
“I didn’t know that was my call.”
“I assumed they were handling that.”
It looks like:
Three teams touching the same problem but not talking
A “top priorities” slide no one can recite
A roadmap disconnected from the strategy deck
A CEO calendar full of escalation and clarification
If you’re honest, you might see this clearly:
You do have priorities.
You just don’t have shared ownership or shared focus.
Why reorgs don’t fix it
When things feel off, reorgs are tempting.
They feel decisive. They signal motion.
They let you say, “We’re taking big action.”
But here’s the truth:
Reorgs rearrange misalignment.
They don’t resolve it.
If your leadership team isn’t aligned on:
✔️ What matters most in the next 90 days
✔️ Who owns what
✔️ What “good” looks like
✔️ How you’ll keep each other honest
Then the org chart will keep shifting around the same problems.
And you’ll keep holding the whole plan in your head.
That is not sustainable.
The question most CEOs avoid
There’s one question more CEOs should ask:
“If I put all our priorities, projects, and owners on one page,
would it actually make sense?”
Not theoretically.
Not in a board deck.
In reality.
Most can’t answer yes.
Because the truth is, the picture is scattered across:
OKRs
Department plans
Project boards
Individual goals
Slack threads and random decks
No one sees the whole picture.
Except you.
That is the real bottleneck.
A simpler way to approach alignment
Instead of another offsite or restructuring, I push for something simpler:
One focused working session that puts everything on the table.
I call it a Leadership Alignment Diagnostic.
Here’s what happens in that session:
We map what you say the priorities are vs. what people are actually doing.
You immediately see where intent and behavior don’t match.
We surface fuzzy ownership.
Where two people “kind of” own something, no one does.
We force tradeoffs.
Not 17 priorities.
3-5 non-negotiables for the next 90 days.
We create a visual 90-day map.
One page. Clear owners. Clear outcomes.
This is not a workshop for show.
It is a working session for decisions.
Why it must be visual
Conversation alone doesn’t create alignment.
A shared picture does.
When the team sees everything on one page:
Invisible work shows up.
Duplicated efforts show up.
Pet projects show up.
Lack of ownership shows up.
No one has to blame anyone.
The map reveals the truth.
From there, alignment becomes a series of clean decisions:
“This is in. This is out.”
“You own this. They support.”
“Good idea, but not for this quarter.”
It seems simple.
In practice, it’s the difference between motion and progress.
What changes after 90 days
When a CEO commits to real alignment, here’s what shifts:
Your calendar stops acting like the emergency room.
Leadership meetings shift from updates to decisions.
Teams start saying no to work outside the priorities.
Progress becomes visible, not just reported.
Most importantly, you stop being the only one who sees the whole game.
That’s the real relief.
If this feels uncomfortably familiar
If you read this and thought,
“This is exactly what’s happening in my company,”
you’re not alone.
This is the hidden tax on growth for many strong companies.
Here’s what I’m offering:
Over the next few weeks, I’m running a limited number of Leadership Alignment Diagnostics for CEOs who:
✔️ Lead teams of 50–500
✔️ Operate in the $1M–$50M range (don’t hesitate if you don’t fit exactly in this range)
✔️ Feel like they’re holding everything together by force of will
In 90 minutes, we will:
Map where your strategy is breaking in execution
Align your leadership team on 3–5 true priorities
Build a simple 90-day execution map with clear owners
If you want next quarter to look different from the last one, start here.
You don’t need a new strategy.
You need your current one executed.
If you’re interested
Book a call here or reply with ALIGN or use this link to book a short intro call.
In that call, we’ll:
✔️ Clarify what’s at stake for the next 90 days
✔️ Identify where execution is breaking
✔️ Decide together if the Diagnostic is the right step
No pressure.
No funnel here. (I’ve been funnelized TOO MANY TIMES to do that to you!)
Just a clear look at why things feel heavier than they should.
Can’t wait to hear from you!
—Tamar