✦ AUGHTY ✦ The Meeting 1 THE OFFICE. THURSDAY. 2:55 PM. AUGHTY What's it about? COLLEAGUE Big meeting in five. Don't forget. COLLEAGUE You know. Just… the usual catch-up. THE MEETING ROOM. 3:00 PM. ALIGNMENT slide 1 of 1 AUGHTY Where are we at with what? MANAGER So — where are we all at? FORTY MINUTES LATER. MANAGER Great conversation, everyone. Really productive. AUGHTY (quietly) What did we decide? COLLEAGUE (cheerfully) Nothing. But everyone feels heard. I had a thought in there. I couldn't say it because I couldn't find the gap. The gap where I could speak without interrupting, without the moment being wrong. The gap never came. The gap never came. The conversation moves at the speed of the comfortable. I am always just slightly behind the gap.
The slide still said ALIGNMENT. Nobody mentioned what we were aligning to.