Leadership called everyone back to the office to get collaboration. What it got was attendance. Every workplace transmits a signal about who belongs and who has to work harder just to stay — the open floor, the unspoken rules, the performance of being present. Most leaders have no idea what they're broadcasting, or who it's quietly pushing out. And the talent that leaves is exactly the talent the whole series has been about: the people the boardroom never knew it had.

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Walk into any organization and you'll find it: the initiative nobody decided to kill. It's still technically alive, still on someone's slide, but nothing's moving. Leaders assume these things die for lack of conviction. They don't. They die for lack of capacity — one overloaded owner, no protected budget, no answer to what happens if that person leaves. And here it costs more than a stall, because a dead effort quietly confirms that you say things you don't mean.

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