Post 2 of 5 — Holding Tension Series You know the meeting. Two people you respect are hardening into positions. Something just landed badly—and no one names it. The data is clear on one side. The human cost is real on the other. And underneath it all… is a question no one has said out loud yet. And every instinct is telling you: Just make the call. That moment—right there— is where the competency of holding tension lives. Everything about leadership conditions you to do the o

Holding Tension — A Leadership Capability for Complex Decisions This is the first in a five-part series exploring a leadership capability we call Holding Tension. There is a core capacity—a survival instinct, really—that almost no organization is building. Not because we don’t need it, but because we are too afraid to name the discomfort it requires. We call it Holding Tension . It is the ability to stay in the fire of a deadlock long enough for something better to emerge—wh