<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[LbD Academy]]></title><description><![CDATA[LbD Academy]]></description><link>https://www.leadershipbydesign.academy/perspective</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 21:56:42 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.leadershipbydesign.academy/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The Ideas You Killed Before They Surfaced.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ideation is where the solution field gets built. Every decision that follows, evaluation, commitment, execution, runs against whatever field this stage produced. A decision can only ever be as good as the alternatives it chose between, and ideation is the only stage that creates them.]]></description><link>https://www.leadershipbydesign.academy/post/the-ideas-you-killed-before-they-surfaced</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ad025c8cf24918ed3304430</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 17:44:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/984e93_fa9eb9c31ec7441090c23c5f90f19936~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_630,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Nicole Pavelka</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Walked Out Aligned. Nobody Else Did.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Agreement is not alignment, and the gap between them is where most decisions quietly die. Agreement is the absence of objection: under pressure, people nod because disagreeing costs more than going along. Alignment is rarer. It means every person can name the same decision, what it means for their area, and what they do differently the next morning. When those diverge, the stillness that follows looks like progress until nothing has moved.]]></description><link>https://www.leadershipbydesign.academy/post/you-walked-out-aligned-nobody-else-did</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ad025c8cf24918ed3304432</guid><category><![CDATA[Perspective]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:47:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/984e93_c618fb649658439bbf79f001b511e631~mv2.gif/v1/fit/w_1000,h_630,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Nicole Pavelka</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Perfect Read on a Measure that Drifted]]></title><description><![CDATA[A decision that won't close usually isn't about the options. It's the frame underneath them, drifting week to week while the choices stay still.]]></description><link>https://www.leadershipbydesign.academy/post/a-perfect-read-on-a-measure-that-drifted</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ad025c8cf24918ed330442f</guid><category><![CDATA[Perspective]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 03:46:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/984e93_b60ad64afb7c4b5d8e403b270a4a950e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_630,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Nicole Pavelka</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solving the Wrong Problem Precisely]]></title><description><![CDATA[A team spends three months building a solution. The work is excellent. And when it lands, everyone can see it solved a problem the company didn't actually have. The mistake wasn't in the execution, which was clean. It was made months earlier, in a quiet moment that felt like progress and was actually premature commitment. Under pressure, the step that would have caught it is the first one to go.]]></description><link>https://www.leadershipbydesign.academy/post/solving-the-wrong-problem-precisely</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ad025c8cf24918ed3304434</guid><category><![CDATA[Perspective]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:22:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/984e93_3ff362fd19554e1889a72dec73121e48~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_630,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Nicole Pavelka</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Sharpness Didn't Leave. The Room Did.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nobody says it out loud. It is a 10pm thought, arriving after a muddled decision or a point you could not land: I used to be sharper than this. You sit with it alone. The other executives having the same thought tonight are sitting alone with it too. It is almost never what it feels like, and what actually changed is not you.]]></description><link>https://www.leadershipbydesign.academy/post/your-sharpness-didn-t-leave-the-room-did</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ad025c8cf24918ed3304431</guid><category><![CDATA[Perspective]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 21:32:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/984e93_f35962660c14401e80320ae3ad5937b1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_630,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Nicole Pavelka</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why the Executive Thinking Architecture exists.]]></title><description><![CDATA[A priority resurfaces that the group thought they had resolved last month. Two department heads are operating on different interpretations of the same strategy. The CEO makes a call, the room nods, and the call quietly loosens by the next meeting. If you have been in those rooms, the pattern is familiar. What most capable executives are running into is not a team or meeting problem. It is a problem of how decisions are being assembled under sustained pressure.]]></description><link>https://www.leadershipbydesign.academy/post/why-executive-thinking-architecture-exists</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ad025c8cf24918ed3304433</guid><category><![CDATA[Perspective]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:59:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/984e93_984c0a4071c846b1b2ba8b476a188777~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_630,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Nicole Pavelka</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>