Lilian Nicolaas
Field Notes

Notes from inside the room.

These are my own notes. Patterns I have watched repeat in one leadership team after another, written down so I would not lose them. What quietly moves a team forward, and what quietly holds it back. I am sharing them because the leaders I work with keep recognizing themselves in these pages.

Your Team Agreed. They Didn't Align.

Agreement is the easiest thing to get in a leadership meeting. It is also the most misleading.

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Every Team Has Someone the Rules Don't Apply To.

Their power buys an exemption from the standards everyone else lives by, and everyone else is watching.

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Recognize your team in these notes?

A complimentary thirty-minute conversation about what is actually stuck, and whether it is work I can help with.